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Dixon Kemp
Dixon Kemp (1839 – 21 November 1899), a British naval architect, was a founder of the Yacht Racing Association (now the Royal Yachting Association) and at one time its secretary. He was a founder of Lloyd's Register of Yachts. Kemp was born in Ryde, a British seaside town on the Isle of Wight. For a time, he edited the ''Isle of Wight Observer''. He was also yachting editor of '' The Field''. Kemp was an authority on the design of yachts and yacht racing. Of his famous yachts, ''Firecrest'' (1892) was used by Alain Gerbault in his solo circumnavigation of the globe, and was the vessel he sailed to win the Blue Water Medal in 1923. His ''Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...'' is still afloat and made a Trans-Atlantic crossing in 2011. The British Admiralty ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Yachting Association
The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) is a United Kingdom national governing body for sailing, dinghy sailing, yacht and motor cruising, sail racing, RIBs and sportsboats, windsurfing and personal watercraft and a leading representative for inland waterways cruising. History The ''Yacht Racing Association'' was founded in November 1875. Its initial purpose was to standardize the rules of measurement to different racing yachts so that boats of different classes could compete fairly against each other. Membership at the time cost two guineas and was available to "former and present owners of racing yachts of and above 10 tons Thames measurement and such other gentlemen as the committee may elect". In 1921 the YRA incorporated the independent Sailing Boat Association and the Boat Racing Association into its body. In 1952 the YRA became the Royal Yachting Association (RYA). The RYA remains constituted as a membership association, with a Council of elected volunteers as its sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryde
Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 23,999 according to the 2011 Census and an estimate of 24,847 in 2019. Its growth as a seaside resort came after the villages of Upper Ryde and Lower Ryde were merged in the 19th century, as can still be seen in the town's central and seafront architecture. The resort's expansive sands are revealed at low tide. Their width means the regular ferry service to the mainland requires a long listed pier – the fourth longest in the United Kingdom, and the oldest surviving. History In 1782 numerous bodies of men, women and children from HMS ''Royal George'', which sank suddenly at Spithead, were washed ashore at Ryde. Many were buried on land that is now occupied by the Esplanade. A memorial to them was erected in June 2004. There are a series of Regency and Victorian buildings in the town with important buildings such as All Saints' Church, designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Wight Observer
The Isle of Wight Observer is a free newspaper published on the Isle of Wight. It was launched on 10 August 2018 in a tabloid format, and is distributed through supermarkets and other outlets across the island. It is regulated by IMPRESS. The editor is Carole Dennett (the former partner and parliamentary assistant of the island's previous MP, Andrew Turner). Since 2019, it has operated through the company IW Observer Ltd, of which Miss Dennett is listed as the sole director. Prior to this, it operated through the company Isle of Wight Observer Ltd, which had Martin Potter as a director alongside her. Mr Potter is a former owner, editor and publisher of Island Life Magazine. When it launched, Potter told the Press Gazette that: "For the past 134 years the Isle of Wight County Press has been the only substantial newspaper on the island and we are trying to provide an alternative to it, not compete with it.” The decision to set up the Observer came after a complaint Dennett made a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Field (magazine)
''The Field'' is a British monthly magazine about country matters and field sports. It was started as a weekly magazine in 1853, and has remained in print since then; Robert Smith Surtees was among the founders. In the nineteenth century it was known as ''Field: The Country Gentleman's Newspaper''. The magazine is one of the earliest hobby magazines. It is published by TI Media, subsidiary of Future plc. Editors of ''The Field'' * 1853–1857 Mark Lemon * 1857–1888 John Henry Walsh * 1888–1899 Frederick Toms * 1900–1910 William Senior * 1910–1928 Sir Theodore Andrea Cook Sir Theodore Andrea Cook (28 March 1867 – 16 September 1928) was a British art critic and writer. Sporting activities Theodore Cook spent his early years in Wantage after his father, Henry Cook, became the headmaster of King Alfred's Scho ... * 1931–1937 Eric Parker * 1938–1946 Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald * 1947–1950 Leonard V Dodds * 1951–1977 Wilson Stephens * 1977–1984 Derek Bingham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Gerbault
Alain Jacques Georges Marie Gerbault (November 17, 1893 – December 16, 1941) was a French Sailor, writer and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life. As a tennis player he was ranked the fifth on the French rankings in 1923. Early life Alain Gerbault was born on November 17, 1893, in Laval, Mayenne, to an upper-middle-class family. He spent much of his youth in Dinard, near the ancient port of St. Malo; he spent his summers playing tennis and football, as well as hunting and fishing. At college he studied civil engineering. He had a brother with whom they owned a lime factory in Laval. At the age of twenty-one, Gerbault joined in the Flying Corps, serving as an officer; by the end of the war, he was a decorated hero. After the war, he took up tennis, becoming the French champion, and also bridge, at whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Water Medal
The Blue Water Medal is an honor awarded annually by the Cruising Club of America for a remarkable sailing feat. The first award was issued in 1923. Winners *Webb Chiles (2017) *Michael J Johnson (2016) *Tom and Vicky Jackson (2015) * Skip Novak (2014) *Jeanne Socrates (2013) * David Scott Cowper (2012) *Thies Matzen and Kicki Ericson (2011) on Wanderer III "for 24 years and 135,000 miles of sailing the oceans of the world with a focus in the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean". This is the second Blue Water Medal earned by the Wanderer III, the first being with Eric and Susan Hiscock who made two circumnavigations with her and received the Blue Water Medal in 1955. *Alex Whitworth (2010) "for a circumnavigation of the world via the Northwest Passage west to east." * Annie Hill and Trevor Robertson (2009) * Peter Passano (2007) * Minoru Saito (2006) * Anthony Gooch (2003) "For his very well planned and executed single-handed nonstop circumnavigation from Victoria to Victoria, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon (yacht)
''Amazon'' is a long screw schooner and former steam yacht built in 1885 at the private Arrow Yard of Tankerville Chamberlayne in Southampton. Designer Dixon Kemp intended her to be 'fast and a good seaboat' and her successful sea trials were recorded in the several editions of his definitive ''Yacht Architecture'' ( First Edition published in 1885). In 2011, ''Amazon'' was listed as one of the world's Top 40 Classic Yachts and was the oldest vessel honoured. Construction Carvel planked in teak and pitch pine on oak frames, with alternate wrought iron strap floor reinforcement, bronze fastenings, lead keel and copper sheathing, the ''Amazon''s hull is still largely original. History Her builder and first owner, Tankerville Chamberlayne, an English gentleman, personally supervised her construction by his own Arrow Yard at Northam on the River Itchen. This small private facility was established by the Chamberlayne family for the maintenance of the famous cutter ''Arrow'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Admiralty
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs administered the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England, which merged with the Royal Scots Navy and the absorbed the responsibilities of the Lord High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland with the unification of the Kingdom of Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey, '' Sailing Alone Around the World'', which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the ''Spray''. Nova Scotian childhood Joshua Slocum was born on February 20, 1844, in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (officially recorded as Wilmot Station), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay of Fundy. The fifth of eleven children of John SlocombeGeoffrey Wolff, ''The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum'', p 8: spelling of family name given as "Slocombe". and Sarah Jane Slocombe ''née'' Southern, Joshua descended, on his father's side, from a Quaker known as "John the Exile", who left the United States shortly after 1780 beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spray (sailing Vessel)
''Spray'' was a sailboat weighing nine tons that Joshua Slocum, a 19th-century Canadian-American seaman and author, rebuilt and sailed around the world solo. On the morning of April 24, 1895, the ''Spray'', with Slocum at the helm, departed Boston Harbor. On June 27, 1898, Slocum sailed the ''Spray'' into the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, becoming the first man known to have sailed around the world alone. On November 14, 1909, Slocum set sail from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts aboard the ''Spray'', bound for South America and the headwaters of the Orinoco River. He was never heard from again, and no trace of the ''Spray'' was ever found. History In 1892, Captain Ebenezer Pierce, offered Slocum a ship that "wants some repairs". Slocum went to Fairhaven, Massachusetts to find that the "ship" was a rotting old oyster sloop named ''Spray'', propped up in a field. Despite the major overhaul of the ship, Slocum kept her name ''Spray'', noting, "Now, it is a law in Lloyd's th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Sportsman's Library
The ''American Sportsman's Library'' is a series of 16 uniformly-bound volumes on sporting subjects, from an American perspective, published by the Macmillan Company (see Macmillan Publishers) in the period 1902-1905. Caspar Whitney, the owner/editor of ''Outing'' magazine and a well-known outdoorsman and sporting journalist, edited the series. Authors, including Theodore Roosevelt (writing while President of the United States), were noted experts in their fields. M.L. Biscotti, in ''American Sporting Book Series'' (1994), states that " e authors of these titles were a "Who's Who of American sportsmen of the era....Macmillan designed a premium series....The sixteen titles produced in this series represent that era's best sporting literature." The trade edition of each volume was with green cloth covers with gilt titles and decorations. The books cost $2 or $3 each, relatively high prices for the time (about $54 and $81 inflation-adjusted to 2016). They included extensive bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre. * January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years. * January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the daguerreotype photography process. * January 19 – British forces capture Aden. * January 20 – Battle of Yungay: Chile defeats the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, leading to the restoration of an independent Peru. * January – The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson. * February 11 – The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River. * February 24 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel. * March 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville, Virginia. * March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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