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Reliance was designed and built to defend the America's Cup in 1903. She defeated Shamrock III in three straight races to defend the Cup. Shamrock III was designed by William Fife, Jr. for her owner, Sir Thomas Lipton. Reliance was commmissioned by a syndicate of ten New York Yacht Club members that included titans of business and finance such as William Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and C. Oliver Iselin. Reliance was the fourth vessel in a row designed by Nathanael Herreshoff and built by HMCo, under his supervision, to defend their fifth consecutive America's Cup (his earlier Columbia defended the Cup in both 1899 and 1901). Reliance is considered the most extreme of the eight consecutive defenders of the America's Cup built by HMCo from 1893 - 1934. Reliance was the largest single masted vessel in the world at the time of her launching in 1903. Overall length on deck was just under 144' with a waterline length of 90' allowed for enourmous overhangs that provided a greatly extended waterline length when in racing trim. Reliance displaced just under 190 tons that was substantially concentrated in her massive lead keel. The keel and light strong hull structure was required to support 16,840 sq. ft. of sail area or just over 1/3 of a football playing field. The sails towered over 154' above deck. The structural engineering of Reliance's hull and sailing rig are examples of N. G. Herreshoff's brilliant engineering mind. To create the lightest and strongest hull and mast, NGH used strong nickle steel for the hull and mast framing and Tobin Bronze for hull and mast plating. Aluminium was also used on deck to save weight. He reduced interior structural weight by using strong web frames and longitudinal framing, much like the construction of metal aircraft fuselages years later. The combination of materials and specific structual engineering was focused on concentrating weight down low in the keel to support the massive sail area to drive this huge sailing vessel as fast as possible. This extreme America's Cup winner also caused major changes in thinking about the rule around which such extreme yachts could come into existence. After Reliance's victory, the New York Yacht Club issued requests for new more rational yacht rating formulas and NGH offered a new formula that was accepted and became known as the Universal Rule. The rule attempted to provide a better framework for designing more practical and seaworthy classes of racing boats from 16' to the new J-class, used in the America's Cup starting in 1930. Herreshoff's New York 30 of 1905 was the first HMCo one-design class built to his new rule.

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My choice would be the yacht Reliance of 1903 designed by the famous Nat Herreshoff. I read the book Temple to the Wind a long time ago and could not put it down. That yacht was, for its day, such an extreme design and engineering feat, without computers and all designed and built in a short time. Herreshoff was the master in those days.

The yacht measured over 200ft overall with just 90ft of waterline [the huge overhangs were to take advantage of the rating rule when heeled], it displaced 189 tons and had a sail area of 1,500m2 (16,000ft2)! It was massive and with wooden masts that tipped 200ft above the water, an 84ft long wooden spinnaker pole and cotton sails.

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She was the first yacht with winches below decks and despite that still had a crew of 64 to handle the gigantic sailplan.

Reliance won the America’s Cup against Shamrock III , a beautiful yacht designed by William Fife. Those were the days of extreme but beautiful yachts!

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Top speed: 20 knots LOA: 61.3m/201ft Launched: 1903 Berths: 0 Price: $175,000 Adrenalin factor: 80%

Over the last four decades Andre Hoek has designed or optimised more classic style yachts than perhaps anyone, from traditional Dutch leeboarders to his highly successful Truly Classic and Pilot Classic ranges, through to stunning superyachts such as Adele and Elfje – plus of course his work on three of today’s latest J Class yachts .

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Reliance: America’s Cup Beautiful Freak

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The beautiful behemoth Reliance handily defended the America’s Cup in 1903, but her freakishly large size caused the contest’s rules on design to change after the race. British tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton for the America’s Cup that year issued the challenge. He had already challenged America twice since 1899 for the Cup, and he would challenge twice again until 1930.

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The New York Yacht Club, defender of the Cup, enlisted America’s best yacht designer, and one of the most innovative in history, Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff, or Captain Nat, born March 18, 1848. He and his brother J.B. founded the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. They earned worldwide renown for their fast steam yachts, innovative torpedo boats and superbly crafted sailboats.

Captain Nat, then in his 50s, didn’t want to design the 1903 America’s Cup defender. His wife Clara was ill and he suffered from rheumatism. He also hadn’t gotten over the failure of his yacht Constitution to beat Columbia in the 1901 Cup trials. But the New York Yacht Club persisted. Captain Nat gave in. He would enjoy another 10 years of the ‘Herreshoff Era’ of racing, from 1890 to 1920.

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Herreshoff launched Reliance at Bristol on April 12, 1903. She was the largest single-masted sailboat ever, at 143’, 9” with 16,160 sq. ft. of sails, weighing four tons. Her mast was as tall as a 20-story building. Her spinnaker pole was 84 feet long. It took a crew of 66 to sail her. And yet she was built for speed, so she was light and unstable.

The Reliance was a freak. A sailing freak. Like all racing yachts, she had one purpose and one purpose alone: to win the America’s Cup. Yachtsman Cornelius Vanderbilt defended the Reliance from its critics, “Call the boat a freak, anything you like, but we cannot handicap ourselves, even if our boat is only fit for the junk heap the day after the race.”

The challenge featured a series of five races in New York Harbor. Hundreds of thousands of spectators streamed into New York for the races, buying tickets on a fleet of excursion steamers. The race was more than a race. It was a matter of national pride.

Reliance won the first three races, the third so decisively that Shamrock III retired. Lipton, as always, lost graciously. Immediately after Reliance won the race, Herreshoff proposed the Universal rating rule to avoid such extreme, dangerous and expensive sailboats. The rule was then accepted.

Reliance went to the scrap heap in 1913. The Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, built a one-sixth model of the Reliance.

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“ Reliance , the 1903 America’s Cup defender designed by Nat Herreshoff, was funded by a nine-member syndicate of the New York Yacht Club headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt III. The design took advantage of a loophole in the Seawanhaka ‘90-foot LWL’ rating rule to produce a yacht with long overhangs so that when heeled over, her waterline length (and therefore her speed) increased dramatically.

Reliance  was the first racing boat to be fitted with winches below decks, in an era when her competitors relied on sheer manpower. Despite this, a crew of 64 was required for racing due to the large sail plan. From the tip of her bowsprit to the end of her 108-foot boom,  Reliance   measured 201 feet. Her spinnaker pole was 84 feet long, and her total sail area of 16,160 sq ft was the equivalent of eight 12 meter class yachts.”

–   Various sources  – The beautiful freak  Reliance  (1903-13)

(Vanderbilt said “Call the boat a freak, anything you like, but we cannot handicap ourselves even if our boat is only fit for the junk heap the day after the race.” Herreshoff’s extreme design defeated  Shamrock III  in three straight races but her career was cut short by the introduction of the Universal Rating Rule.  Reliance  was sold for scrap in 1913.)

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"They tell me I have a beautiful boat. I don't want a beautiful boat. What I want is a boat to lift the Cup - a Reliance. Give me a homely boat, the homeliest boat that was ever designed, if she is as fast as Reliance," Sir Thomas Lipton explained after the failure of his Shamrock III, designed by William Fife III, Jr. "I want a Reliance." 

These were the kind of compliments towards what has become one of the most celebrated boats in the history of the America's Cup, and its designer, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. 

But the massive scale of the 1903 Defender frightened the America's Cup establishment which would adopt, ten years later, a more conservative approach to the design and building of America's Cup yachts. 

In 1903, the rule imposed only one major constraint on Herreshoff: the load waterline length of the boat couldn't exceed 27.43 meters. The designer modeled a flat and modestly deep hull, similar to that of a scow. The biggest surprise came from the long overhangs: 6.70 meters forward and 7.92 meters aft. Sailing close hauled, in seven or eight knots of breeze, the effective waterline length would stretch out from 27.43 meters to nearly 40-metres...a tremendous source of speed. 

The keel, shaped like a fin, came down very deep. The boat would settle into a comfortable, fast, heel very easily, possible because Herreshoff managed to exploit the most improbably enormous sail area ever seen to that point on a single mast: a massive 1 501 square meters of canvas, approximately 186 square meters more than Shamrock III . 

Due to the scale of the boat, and the loads on it, Nathanael fitted Reliance with uncountable innovations: Bronze Tobin hull, steel welded mast with a telescopic topmast sliding into the mainmast, two-speed winches, sheets and runners laid under an aluminum bridge covered with cork, a hollow rudder which could be filled or emptied of water depending on the point of sail. It would take all the effort and nautical wisdom of the incredible Charlie Barr to safely skipper Reliance through the Cup, along with a crew of 64. 

The simple fact that Reliance was built and sailed is, on its own, an exceptional event in the history of the America's Cup. Behind the fantastic 1903 Defender , there was a gallery of great men; among them, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, perhaps the best yacht designer of all time, Charlie Barr, among the most talented skippers in yachting history, and then there were the money men behind the project, such as J.P. Morgan and John Rockefeller who spent countless dollars to repel Sir Thomas Lipton's assault on the Cup. Reliance remains a singular symbol. Better than any other boat, Reliance expresses the logic of the all-or-nothing contest, sailed with intensity without equal, between two great rivals, Great Britain and America. 

During the third and final race of the America's Cup Match, sailed on September 3rd, 1903, on a 20-mile windward - leeward course from the Sandy Hook lightship, a thick fog enveloped the race course. Reliance had just turned, well ahead, when both boats disappeared from sight. Foghorns began a sinister concert, dominated by the siren on the lightship, which rang to indicate to the racers where the finish line might be found. The wait was long, and each spectator scrutinized the fog, until the flapping of a sail in the wind could be heard and Reliance appeared out of the mist like a ghost from the beyond. She crossed the finishing line to the acclaim of the crowd at 17:30 in the afternoon as the crew hauled in the enormous spinnaker in a superb display of seamanship. Shamrock III lost its bearings in the fog that afternoon and eventually sailed directly to its mooring. 

In the evening of its victory, just 146 days after its christening, Reliance was laid up in dry-dock. In an ironic twist, "Lem Miller" the skipper of Columbia who was beaten by Barr and Reliance during the NYYC Defender Trials, led the 1903 winner to Robins Yard, in South Brooklyn, in 1913, where it was scrapped. 

Source:www.americascup.com 7/2/2007

Cup(s) Sailed: 1903 (won)

Crew: 64 

Owners: J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller

Year Built: 1903

Launched: April 12, 1903 

Type: Fin Keel Sloop

Designer: Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

Builder: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company

Construction

Frames: Steel

Planking Top: Steel — Supplied by Lukens

Planking Bottom: N/A

Mast: Steel

Spinnaker Pole: N/A

Keel Ballast: N/A

Length Overall: 143.7 ft. / 43.79 m

Length Waterline: 89.6 ft. / 27.32 m 

Beam: 25.9 ft. / 7.88 m

Draft with Keel Lowered: N/A 

Displacement: 175 tons

Tonnage: N/A

Mast: 104.9 ft. / 31.98 m

Bowsprit: N/A

Top Mast: N/A

Source:www.americascup.com 5/2/2007

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On this Day (April 12) – Reliance Was Launched

The beautiful behemoth Reliance handily defended the America’s Cup in 1903, but she was so freakishly big the contest’s rules on design were changed after the race.

The challenge for the America’s Cup that year was issued by British tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton. He had already challenged America twice since 1899 for the Cup, and he would challenge twice again until 1930.

Lipton was a self-made millionaire who built a chain of grocery stores in Britain and invented the tea bag. He was a passionate yachtsman who hired Britain’s best yacht designers to build his challengers, all named Shamrock.

The New York Yacht Club, defender of the Cup, enlisted America’s best yacht designer – and one of the most innovative in history. Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff, or Captain Nat, was born March 18, 1848 in Bristol, R.I. He and his brother J.B. founded the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and earned worldwide renown for their fast steam yachts, innovative torpedo boats and superbly crafted sailboats

Captain Nat, then in his 50s, didn’t want to design the 1903 America’s Cup defender. His wife Clara was ill, he suffered from rheumatism and he was depressed because of the failure of his yacht Constitution to beat Columbia in the 1901 Cup trials. The New York Yacht Club persisted. He gave in.

He would enjoy another 10 years of the ‘Herreshoff Era’ of racing, from 1890 to 1920.

Reliance was launched at Bristol on April 12, 1903. She was the largest single-masted sailboat ever, at 143’, 9” with 16,160 sq. ft. of sails, weighing four tons, from the Lawrence textile mills. Her mast was as tall as a 20-story building. Her spinnaker pole was 84 feet long. It took a crew of 66 to sail her. And yet she was built for speed, so she was light — and unstable.

The Reliance was a freak. A sailing freak. Like all racing yachts, she had one purpose and one purpose alone: to win the America’s Cup.

Yachtsman Cornelius Vanderbilt defended the Reliance from its critics:

Call the boat a freak, anything you like, but we cannot handicap ourselves, even if our boat is only fit for the junk heap the day after the race.

It was a best of five series in New York Harbor. Hundreds of thousands of spectators streamed into New York for the races, buying tickets on a fleet of excursion steamers. The race was more than a race. It was a matter of national pride.

Reliance won the first three races, the third so decisively that Shamrock III was forced to retire.

Lipton, as always, was a gracious loser. He would go on to lose his next two challenges. In 1930, the American people presented him with a gold cup for his good sportsmanship.

Lipton had no regrets, he said. Yacht racing ‘has kept me young, eager, buoyant and hopeful. It has brought me health and splendid friends.’ (Those friends included King Edward VII and King George V.)

Immediately after Reliance won the race, Nathanael Herreshoff proposed the Universal rating rule to avoid such extreme, dangerous and expensive sailboats. The rule was accepted.

Reliance was sold for scrap in 1913. The Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol is currently building a one-sixth model of the Reliance.

With thanks to Temple to the Wind: The Story of America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance, by Christopher Pastore. This story was updated from the 2014 version.

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Reliance (yacht)

Reliance was the 1903 America's Cup defender, the fourth defender from the famous designer Nat Herreshoff , and reportedly the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built.

Reliance was funded by a nine member syndicate of members of the New York Yacht Club headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt III .

Reliance was designed to take full advantage of the Seawanhaka '90-foot' rating rule and was regarded as a "racing freak", suitable only for use in certain conditions. The 1903 America's Cup was the last to be raced according to the Seawanhaka rule.

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Her design took advantage of a loophole in the Seawanhaka '90-foot' rating rule, to produce a racing yacht with long overhangs at each end, so that when heeled over, her waterline length (and therefore her speed) increased dramatically (see image at left).

To save weight, she was completely unfinished below deck , with exposed frames. She was the first racing boat to be fitted with winches below decks, in an era when her competitors relied on sheer man-power. Despite this she carried a crew of 64 for racing due to her large sail plan . [1] From the tip of her bowsprit to the end of her 108-foot (33 m) boom , Reliance measured 201 feet (61 m), and the tip of her mast was 199 feet (61 m) above the water (the height of a 20-story building). [1] Everything else was to an equally gargantuan scale; her spinnaker pole was 84 feet (26 m) long, and her total sail area of 1,501 m 2 (16,160 sq ft) was the equivalent of eight 12 meter class yachts. [2]

Reliance was built for one purpose: to successfully defend the America's Cup.

Call the boat a freak, anything you like, but we cannot handicap ourselves, even if our boat is only fit for the junk heap the day after the race. —  Cornelius Vanderbilt [3]

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The extreme design of the hull

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Reliance in drydock , the keel visible

Her racing career was extraordinarily brief – and undefeated. She bested her America's Cup challenger, Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock III , designed by William Fife , in all three races, with Shamrock III losing by such a margin in the third that she was forced to retire. [4] Reliance ' s designer, Nathanael Herreshoff, immediately proposed the Universal rating rule to avoid such extreme, dangerous and expensive vessels, which made Reliance an inadequate contestant in subsequent races. There was much speculation as to whether Reliance ' s victory was due to the design of the yacht or the skill of Charlie Barr in sailing her. Lipton himself proposed to allow the two boats to swap crew after the race to decide the matter, but the offer was refused by the owners of Reliance . [5] Her very successful career was short-lived, and she was sold for scrap in 1913.

They tell me I have a beautiful boat. I don't want a beautiful boat. What I want is a boat to lift the Cup – a Reliance . Give me a homely boat, the homeliest boat that was ever designed, if she is as fast as Reliance . —  Sir Thomas Lipton , after his 1903 defeat [1]

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Crew of Reliance

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Reliance passing the Brenton Reef light ship at high speed, 1903. Photograph by Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins .

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Reliance America's Cup defender Reliance at the start, August 25th, 1903.

  • ^ "America's Cup Hall of Fame" . Retrieved 2012-04-19 .
  • ^ "Split the Difference" . Evening Post . Volume LXXIV (Issue 79). 30 September 1907.
  • ^ "The Beginning (1851-1920)" . Retrieved 2012-04-19 .
  • ^ "Reliance Wins The Cup" . The Dawson Record . 4 September 1903 . Retrieved 2012-04-19 .

Further reading

  • N. L. Stebbins, W. H. Bunting, Steamers, Schooners, Cutters and Sloops: Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins Taken 1884-1907 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1974)
  • Temple to the Wind - The Story of America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance by Christopher Pastore ( Lyons Press 2005, ISBN  978-1-59228-557-0)

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  1. Reliance (yacht)

    Reliance was the 1903 America's Cup defender designed by Nat Herreshoff.. Reliance was funded by a nine-member syndicate of members of the New York Yacht Club headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt III.. Reliance was designed to take full advantage of the Seawanhaka '90-foot' rating rule and was suitable only for use in certain conditions. The 1903 America's Cup was the last to be raced according to ...

  2. Reliance

    Reliance was designed and built to defend the America's Cup in 1903. She defeated Shamrock III in three straight races to defend the Cup. Shamrock III was designed by William Fife, Jr. for her owner, Sir Thomas Lipton. Reliance was commmissioned by a syndicate of ten New York Yacht Club members that included titans of business and finance such as William Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and C ...

  3. World's coolest yachts: Reliance

    My choice would be the yacht Reliance of 1903 designed by the famous Nat Herreshoff. ... it displaced 189 tons and had a sail area of 1,500m2 (16,000ft2)! It was massive and with wooden masts that ...

  4. Reliance: America's Cup Beautiful Freak

    Herreshoff launched Reliance at Bristol on April 12, 1903. She was the largest single-masted sailboat ever, at 143', 9" with 16,160 sq. ft. of sails, weighing four tons. Her mast was as tall ...

  5. [Crew lying on high side to balance the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903

    1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 20 x 24 cm. | Photograph shows gaff cutter designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, for the 1903 America's Cup. The ship in front of Reliance is Columbia. This shot was taken during the Cup trials, rather than the actual America's Cup races. Columbia had won the previous two Cup ...

  6. The beautiful freak Reliance (1903-13)

    Sailing News. The beautiful freak Reliance (1903-13) - From Sailing Anarchy. " Reliance , the 1903 America's Cup defender designed by Nat Herreshoff, was funded by a nine-member syndicate of the New York Yacht Club headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt III. The design took advantage of a loophole in the Seawanhaka '90-foot LWL' rating rule to ...

  7. Category:Reliance (ship, 1903)

    Media in category "Reliance (ship, 1903)" The following 79 files are in this category, out of 79 total. Antonio Jacobsen - The Reliance.jpg 2,197 × 3,200; 472 KB. Crew furling the jib on the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 America's Cup LCCN2007682241.jpg 5,694 × 4,536; 2.08 MB.

  8. The Yachts: Reliance

    The simple fact that Reliance was built and sailed is, on its own, an exceptional event in the history of the America's Cup. Behind the fantastic 1903 Defender, there was a gallery of great men; among them, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, perhaps the best yacht designer of all time, Charlie Barr, among the most talented skippers in yachting ...

  9. On this Day (April 12)

    He gave in. He would enjoy another 10 years of the 'Herreshoff Era' of racing, from 1890 to 1920. Reliance was launched at Bristol on April 12, 1903. She was the largest single-masted sailboat ever, at 143', 9" with 16,160 sq. ft. of sails, weighing four tons, from the Lawrence textile mills. Her mast was as tall as a 20-story building.

  10. YACHT: RELIANCE, c1903. The yacht 'Reliance' under full sail

    YACHT: RELIANCE, C1903. The Yacht 'Reliance' Under Full Sail. Photograph By Charles E. Bolles, C1903. From Granger - Historical Picture Archive.

  11. [Crew handling sail on the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 America's Cup

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    Broadly speaking, the framing of "Reliance" consists of nickel-steel belt frames of deep section, which are spaced 6 feet 8 inches apart, the frames occurring at every fourth station of the eighty-four stations which make up the full overall length of the yacht. These frames extend entirely around the interior of the yacht, and embody the floor ...

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    Now you can own a piece of History America's Cup "Reliance" Yacht Model. History. Reliance was the 1903 America's Cup defender, the fourth America's Cup defender from the famous designer Nat Herreshoff, and reportedly the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built. ... (25.6 m) long, and her total sail area, around 17,000 square feet (1600 ...

  16. Reliance (yacht)

    Reliance was the 1903 America's Cup defender, the fourth defender from the famous designer Nat Herreshoff, and reportedly the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built.. Reliance was funded by a nine member syndicate of members of the New York Yacht Club headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt III.. Reliance was designed to take full advantage of the Seawanhaka '90-foot' rating rule and was regarded as a ...

  17. MIT Museum

    The keel and light strong hull structure was required to support 16,840 sq. ft. of sail area or just over 1/3 of a football playing field. ... After Reliance's victory, the New York Yacht Club issued requests for new more rational yacht rating formulas and NGH offered a new formula that was accepted and became known as the Universal Rule ...

  18. [Crew handling sail on the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 America's Cup

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  19. Reliance

    1 photographic print. | Yacht "Reliance" under full sail.

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