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NEW ORLEANS, 
Brighton Corps held a meeting and refused to 
die, but decided to form a Sailing and Boating 
Club to be known as The Naval Volunteer 
Cruising Club, Brighton. After the big guns, 
rifles, cutlasses and whalers were returned to 
the Admiralty the space thus found was utilized 
for the berthing of members’ boats and gear. 
Lieut. A. H. Fry, late R. N. A. U., was elected 
commodore and paymaster; A. Gunn, Honorary 
Treasurer, and Mr. A. E. Bramwell,: Secretary, 
who, leaving Brighton in 1896, was succeeded by 
his brother Mr. F. G. S. Bramwell, all members 
of the old corps, and at the present time still 
continue in Office. 
In 1808 Mr. James S. Smith, a very prominent 
and popular sailing man, was elected vice-com- 
modore, a duty which he has fulfilled and con- 
tinues to fill with the greatest zeal and enthu- 
siasm. With a nucleus of about seventy-five 
members and two boats and a yacht’s gig the 
club commenced. Very shortly this club out- 
stripped all the older yachting clubs on the 
Sussex coast and has not only become an insti- 
tution to the city, but has made a great name 
for itself in the south of England, and at the 
present time boasts of eight boats (five rowing 
and three sailing) for the use of members, and 
a fleet of seventy or eighty including tonners 
and motor launches, owned by individual mem- 
bers. The general build of the club boat is from 
twelve to twenty-five feet and of a clincher built 
pattern beach boat which is the best suited to 
this coast. The coast at Brighton faces south- 
west, and as the prevailing winds come from 
that direction a sea is very soon knocked up 
which unfortunately very often causes a post- 
ponement of a race. 
Only two years ago a catastrophe occurred 
which emphasizes the truth of this. A gunboat 
(one of the destroyer class) came into the bay 
and anchored about one and one-half miles off 
the town. The day was fine with a nice sea 
breeze and nine of the crew came ashore in a 
whaler. The breeze freshened during the hour 
they were ashore, and although warned by the 
Brighton fishermen that the sea had become 
lumpy, and they would have to exercise careful- 
ness in getting back to their ships, they refused 
to believe it, and when only one and one-half 
miles off, the boat capsized and seven were 
drowned. 
Besides taking part in, the club members for- 
merly filled the majority of official positions at 
the old Brighton town regattas, but in 1899 the 
then mayor, whose duty it was to call a special 
town meeting for the purpose of making the 


DESIGNED BY 
SMALL BROS. 
necessary arrangements for the holding of the 
regatta, out of sheer apathy on his part, declined 
to call a meeting after repeated requests from 
members of the club to do so. 
As the club viewed such proceedings as a slur 
on the town with its name “Queen of the Water- 
ing Places of the World,” early next year (1900) 
a meeting was held whereat the members unani- 
mously agreed to run a regatta in the club’s 
name irrespective of what the town and its 
noble officials intended to do in the future. This 
regatta was held and turned out a huge success 
and has since become an annual event. The 
town regatta on the other hand has become a 
thing of the past. Mr. Harry Mann (himself a 
splendid yachtsman) is the regatta honorary 
secretary, and has worked very hard for the 
success to which it has attained. 
One of the principal sailing events is the race 
for the (London) Daily Telegraph cup which 
is open to all Sussex boats. So far a club mem- 
ber has been the winner on each occasion, Mr. 
Mann himself the first year. 
During the summer members of the club may 
be met with at great distances around the coast 
on cruises (hence the name), and up the Thames 
or even on the French coast; at other times 
parties of the club in whalers organize parties 
of eight or nine, go for a rowing cruise up the 
numerous picturesque rivers abounding around 
the Sussex coast, one favorite spot being the 
River Arun, which passes Arundel Castle, the 
seat of the Duke of Norfolk. 
During the winter months at intervals the club 
holds a dinner, cigarette concerts, smoking con- 
certs and a dance. The latter went generally, 
taking place at the historic Royal Pavilion which 
was purchased by the town in 1859 from Her 
Majesty, the late Queen Victoria, as for some 
reason she did not approve of Brighton as a 
royal residence. In all probability it was due to 
the growth of the town, and there was no pri- 
vacy, as there was at Osborne at the Isle of 
Wight and Balmoral, Scotland, at which places 
she afterward resided when not staying in Lon- 
don. 
The 21st day of October is a big night at 
the club for the members, on which occasion 
stirring speeches are made in memory of the 
great Nelson who fell on that day at the battle 
of Trafalgar in 1806. No. aspersions are ever 
passed on our neighbors (the French who were 
our foes on that day); on the other hand they 
are referred to as our then brave foes. The club 
members number 240 and it is one of the largest 
on the south coast. 

26, 
[Oe 1907. 

By the way, it is interesting to note that the 
Admiralty (now fully recognizing the error they 
made in 1892 and fully realizing the Volunteer 
forces) has lately resuscitated the Naval Volun- 
teers. A corps has been started at Brighton and 
in two months the new company got above its 
strength in numbers. Several of the members 
have joined and it is progressing in fine style. 
When Admiral Brand came down to Brighton 
to inaugurate the movement in the town he laid 
special stress on the praiseworthy manner in 
which naval volunteers were employed by the 
American Government in the late war with 
Spain, and he hoped the Brighton Company 
would follow with the same success if it came 
to the push. F. G. S. BRAMWELL. 

Newfoundland Notes. 
Tue beautiful yacht North Star, belonging to 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, arrived in 
St. John’s recently from New York via New- 
port. She is bound to Grennock to take bunker 
coal, after which she will be fitted for a cruise 
in the Mediterranean. Her captain is F. C. Simp- 
son, and after coaling he will take the Vander- 
bilt party on board at a port in the south of 
Spain. The vessel contains the acme of luxurious 
appointments, and is well styled a floating palace. 
There is a drawing room, dining room, private 
reception room, offices and eight staterooms, all 
furnished in a most luxurious manner, principally 
in white enamel and gold with panels covered 
with embroidered satin, each room having a dif- 
ferent color. The furniture is of the Louis XIV. 
style, richly upholstered in satin and plush. The 
yacht is 950 tons gross, 328 tons net, 2,000 horse- 
power, and can steam 14 knots. She carries forty- 
five men. One hundred tons of coal have been 
taken on board. 
Several other American yachts visited the coast 
this season, among others the Gloucester yacht 
John R. Bradley called at Battle Harbor on the 
16th, bound to Greenland. She received some 
supplies there and the next day continued her 
voyage. There is a party of pleasurists on board 
and the intention is to cruise the northern regions. 

Universal Yachting Rules. 
Tue delegates to the international yachting 
conference met recently in the rooms of the 
French Y. C., at Paris, to complete the work 
of last year, when a uniform system of measure- 
ment was adopted by the establishment of a set 
of racing rules to which the countries repre- 
sented—Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, 
Germany, Denmark, Finland, Holland, Belgium, 
Italy, Sweden, Norway and Spain—adhere. 
The rules were prepared under four heads; 

LAUNCHING THE 
BOAT, 
namely, management, sailing, protests and meas- 
urements, Good progress was made, the British 
rules on the subjects mentioned prevailing on 
all essential points. The luffing rules followed 
in the United States and Great Britain gave rise 
to the principal controversy, but were eventually 
adopted. The conference is arranging a consti- 
tution for the European Yacht Racing Union. 
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