Resolute (yacht)
{{Short description|Contender in the 1920 America's Cup}}
{{Infobox Americas Cup Yacht
| title = Resolute
| image = Resolute 1914.jpg
| caption = Resolute circa 1914
| club = {{yachtclub|New York Yacht Club}}
| nat = {{flagcountry|USA|1914}}
| ac_year = 1920
| type = Monohull
| class =
| designer = Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
| builder = Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
| launched = 1914
| owner = Henry Walters syndicate
E. Walter Clark (1925–)
| skip = Charles Francis Adams III
| crew =
| wins = 1914 defender trials
1920 America's Cup
| boats =
| fate =
| displacement = {{convert|105.5|ST|t|abbr=on}}
| length = {{convert|106|ft|m|abbr=on}} (LOA)
{{convert|75|ft|m|abbr=on}} (LWL)
| beam = {{convert|21|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| draft = {{convert|13|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}}
| sail = {{convert|8650|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
{{cite journal
|title=Challenger and Defenders of the America's Cup
|journal=Scientific American
|date=June 5, 1920
|pages=622–623
}}
| notes =
}}
Resolute was a yacht designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters to contend the 1914 America's Cup.
Design
Resolute was the last Cup defender to be designed by Herreshoff.
- Overhang forward - {{convert|16|ft|m}}
- Overhang aft - {{convert|15|ft|m}}
- Fore triangle base - {{convert|48|ft|4|in|m}}
- Boom - {{convert|78|ft|m}}
- Deck to topmast - {{convert|130|ft|m}}
- Lead - 65tons
History
Resolute was christened by Grace Vanderbilt and launched on April 25, 1914. In the 1914 America's Cup defender selection trials, skippered by Charles Francis Adams III, she beat Vanitie and Defiance. In so doing, she beat the America's Cup course record off Sandy Hook by sailing 30 miles in 3:16:41.{{cite news |title=Resolute Beats All Cup Course Records. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/06/11/archives/resolute-beats-all-cup-course-records-shamrock-will-have-to-hustle.html |work=New York Times |date=June 11, 1914 |accessdate=2010-10-15 }} However, the outbreak of World War I caused the America's Cup races for 1914 to be postponed. The race was finally held during the 1920 America's Cup.
File:RESOLUTE leading VANITIE at start of first elimination race.png
In 1920 the America's Cup was reconvened and Resolute again prevailed in selection races before successfully defending the Cup in July, once more with Adams at the helm.{{cite web |url=http://32nd.americascup.com/en/acclopaedia/circlinggalaxy/bateau.php?idContent=4869&idRubr=74 |publisher=Americas Cup |title=Resolute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331213418/http://32nd.americascup.com/en/acclopaedia/circlinggalaxy/bateau.php?idContent=4869&idRubr=74 |archive-date=2012-03-31 }} Resolute lost the first two matches before recovering to defend the cup 3–2 against Shamrock IV. Robert Wales Emmons, Jr. was the manager of the yacht in 1920.{{cite news |title=Robert Emmons 2d, Yachtsman, is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/04/19/archives/robert-emmons-2d-yachtsman-is-dead-manager-of-the-resolute-in-the.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 19, 1928 |accessdate=2011-04-26 }}
In 1925 Resolute was sold to E. Walter Clark of Philadelphia.{{cite news|title=E.W. CLARK, BANKER AND YACHTSMAN, 88; Head of Philadelphia Firm Dies --Owned Resolute After It Defended America's Cup |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/05/archives/ew-clark-banker-and-yachtsman-88-head-of-philadelphia-firm-dies.html |accessdate=27 January 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 5, 1946}} Her racing career lasted another ten years, and in 1930 Resolute again participated in the America's cup selection races, albeit as a "trial horse" against which the potential defenders could be judged.
Robert F Kennedy named his Wianno Senior Resolute in 1964, after the America's Cup yacht.
References
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{{commons category|Resolute (ship, 1914)}}
External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=dws0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR4 The International Yacht Race] Technical article, Marine Engineering, July 1920 by C. A. McAllister including photos.
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Category:Yachts of New York Yacht Club members
Category:America's Cup defenders
Category:Individual sailing vessels
Category:Sailboat type designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff