1851 America's Cup

1st America's Cup yacht race August 2021 0th America's Cup United Kingdom Royal-Yacht-Squadron-Burgee.svg Royal Yacht Squadron 8 cutters, 9 schooners United States Burgee of the New York Yacht Club.svg New York Yacht Club America Isle of Wight, UK 22 August 1851 New York Yacht Club 1:0 1870 The 100 Guineas Cup, http://www.boat-duesseldorf.com/cipp/md_boot/custom/pub/content,oid,4306/lang,2/ticket,g_u_e_s_t/print,1 History of The Auld Mug – Introducing the America's Cup Boat Dusseldorf ISAF 2002 also known as the Hundred Guinea Cup https://www.britannica.com/topic/Americas-Cup America's Cup (Hundred Guinea Cup) Britannica 28 June 2016 (£100 Cup), http://america-scoop.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75:pictures-of-the-race-1851&catid=53&Itemid=224&lang=en Pictures of the £100 CUP (1851) Yves Gary 18 October 2015 America's Scoop: America's Cup 1851–1937 or the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns,The British Want Their Cup Back Woo Stu Kuriloff Aaron The Wall Street Journal 1 December 2016 21 August 2021 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-british-want-their-cup-back-1480628484 was a regatta in 1851 which was the first competition for the trophy later named America's Cup. The trophy was valued at 100 pounds-sterling which led to its various names, all variations on 100 Pound Cup.Guinea, Sovereign, Quid, Pound, and Pound-Sterling are frequently used interchangeably, though there are slight differences in value. https://www.rys.org.uk/about/the-yacht-america/ The Yacht America Royal Yacht Squadron 2001 29 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20170206213125/https://www.rys.org.uk/about/the-yacht-america/ 6 February 2017 dead http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/americas-cup-yachts-then-and-now/ America's Cup yachts: Then and now 1/16 (1851) CBS News The race was won by the yacht America, leading to the trophy being renamed "America's Cup". The official event known as "The America's Cup" was founded in 1857, when the deed of gift established the racing regattas. The 1851 competition was a fleet race, whereas modern America's Cups finals are match races. History The race originated with an invitation for the Great Exhibition of 1851 by the Earl of Winton, then Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS), inviting the recently formed New York Yacht Club (NYYC) to enjoy the facilities of the clubhouse of the RYS. John Cox Stevens, Commodore of the NYYC responded positively, and anticipated racing. Due to the RYS rules of the time, other races in the 1851 RYS Regatta were restricted to RYS members and their self-owned yachts, so the R. Y. S. £100 Cup was established, open to anyone to enter. At a RYS meeting on 9 May 1851, the race was scheduled for 22 August 1851. This race was to be the first of a series of challenge races for successive £100 Cups. At the time, it was normal practice for the winners to own the cups that were won, and not to return them for the next race to be won by others. http://land-rover-bar.americascup.com/en/royal.html Royal Yacht Squadron Racing Land Rover Bar America's Cup 29 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160809171032/http://land-rover-bar.americascup.com/en/royal.html 9 August 2016 dead Trophy RYS £100 Cup The trophy is a bottomless ewer made out of 134 ozt kg of silver, and is 27 in cm tall. The ewer was a stock item obtained by the (original) Marquess of Anglesey from jewellers and silversmiths R & S Garrard in 1848. He made the donation to the Royal Yacht Squadron in the hope they would use it for a special event to help the club revive from a sudden drop in attendance, afloat and ashore – the result of a short period of mismanagement under a Commodore who had assumed the role after Anglesey turned it down, at the age of 78.America's Cup Troubles: Royal Irish Yacht Club's First Commodore is to Blame https://afloat.ie/blogs/sailing-saturday-with-wm-nixon/item/64968-america-s-cup-troubles-royal-irish-yacht-club-s-first-commodore-is-to-blame After the race, the trophy was engraved with the names of the yachts that raced against America, except the runner-up Aurora. The winning owners of the America considered melting the Cup down to make individual medals for each of them, but decided against it. They did however perpetuate a misconception, by engraving it "100 Guinea Cup" instead of "The £100 Cup". 100 guineas would have been 105 pounds.Stuff https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350425554/explained-close-actual-americas-cup-cup https://web.archive.org/web/20240925171055/https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350425554/explained-close-actual-americas-cup-cup 2026-09-10 2024-09-25 Race The regatta, held on 22 August 1851, raced clockwise around the Isle of Wight in a fleet race. The course was called "The Queen's Course". The course was near Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight, where the Royal Yacht Squadron headquarters are located. The race took place as part of the 1851 Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta. Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta, 1851 Royal Yacht Squadron 1851 poster The signal gun for sailing was fired at 10am, and the winner saluted by a gun from the flag-ship at 8:34 p.m. (8:37 p.m. railway time). Eighteen yachts were entered for the race, but only 15 yachts started the race. The yacht Fernande did not make the start, while Strella and Titania both got to the starting line, though did not start the race. Those yachts that raced were America, Alarm, Arrow, Aurora, Bacchante, Beatrice, Brilliant, Constance, Eclipse, Freak, Gipsy Queen, Ione, Mona, Volante, and Wyvern. Standing Yacht Class Tons Owner Designer/Builder Yacht club Time Notes Winner America Schooner 170 John Cox Stevens, Edwin Augustus Stevens, James A. Hamilton, George L. Schuyler, Hamilton Wilkes, John Beekman Finlay George Steers / William H. Brown New York Yacht Club 10h34' 2nd Aurora Cutter 47 Le Marchant Thomas, Esq. Michael Ratsey / Cowes Royal Yacht Squadron 10h58' 3rd Bacchante Cutter 80 Benjamin Heywood Jones, Esq. Thomas and James Manlaws Wanhill / Poole Royal Yacht Squadron 11h30' 4th Eclipse Cutter 50 Henry Samuel Fearon, Esq. Wanhill Royal Western Yacht Club & Royal St George Yacht Club 11h45' 5th Brilliant 3-mast-schooner 392 George Holland Ackers John Rubie / Southampton Royal Victoria Yacht Club (England) 13h20' DSQ/DNF AlarmAlarm cutter yacht painting https://images.rmg.co.uk/asset/18888/ Royal Museums Greenwich Cutter 193 Joseph Weld Thomas Inman / Lymington DSQ/DNF ArrowArrow image https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/CC-N-0242 MIT Museum Cutter 84 Thomas Chamberlayne, Esq. Thomas Inman / Lymington Royal Yacht Squadron DSQ/DNF Beatrix aka Beatrice Schooner 161 Sir Walter Palk Carew, Bart. William Camper / Gosport Royal Yacht Squadron DSQ/DNF Constance Schooner 218 2nd Marquis of Conyngham Joseph White / East Cowes DSQ/DNF Freak Cutter 60 William Curling Wanhill DSQ/DNF Gipsy QueenGipsy Queen image https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/vessel/175512 MIT Museum Schooner 160 Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, Bart. White DSQ/DNF Ione Schooner 75 Almon Hill, Esq. White Royal Yacht Squadron DSQ/DNF Mona Cutter 82 Lord Alfred Paget Richard Pinney / Poole DSQ/DNF VolanteVolante image https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/CC-R-0181?query=volante&resultIndex=4 MIT Museum Cutter 48 John Livingstone Craigie, Esq. Thomas Harvey / Ipswich Royal Thames Yacht Club & Royal London Yacht Club DSQ/DNF Wyvern Schooner 205 Duke of Marlborough Camper DSQ/DNS Fernande Schooner 127 Francis Mountjoy Martyn William Camper / Gosport DNS Stella Cutter 65 Richard Frankland, Esq. George & James Inman / Lymington Royal Yacht Squadron DNS TitaniaTitania image https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/CC-F-0158?query=titania&resultIndex=10 MIT Museum Schooner 100 Robert Stephenson, Esq. Robinson and Russell / Millwall Consumed by fire on 5 May 1852 at CowesLloyd's Weekly London Newspaper https://www.newspapers.com/image/390334193/?match=2&terms=titania%20burned Newspapers.com Reference: DSQ/DNF – competitor did not finish under the time limit DSQ/DNS – competitor did not make it to the starting line DNS – did not start – competitor did not make it off the starting line DNF – did not finish DSQ – disqualified Gallery Footnotes NB References 30em Category:America's Cup regattas Category:1851 in England Category:Sailing in England Category:History of the Isle of Wight Category:Sport on the Isle of Wight Category:1851 in sports Category:August 1851 Category:19th century in sailing