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THE HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM / AMERICA’S CUP HALL OF FAME is dedicated to the education and inspiration of the public through presentations of the history and innovative work of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and the America’s Cup competition. The Museum, bordering beautiful Narragansett Bay, in Bristol, Rhode Island, is one of the nation’s most important historic maritime treasures.
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The Herreshoff Brothers and their Torpedo Boats, Part IX
A series of papers on bringing innovation to the “New Navy”
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The 20-rater fin keeler ISOLDE (HMCo. #450) was launched on this day in 1895 - 128 years ago. ISOLDE and sister-ship NIAGARA (HMCo. #451) were the largest fin keelers Captain Nat ever designed, clocking in at 65' overall and drawing almost 11'. L. Francis Herreshoff wrote the following of them in "The Wizard of Bristol,":![]()
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"In the winter of 1894 and '95 Captain Nat certainly was busy for, beside several small sail and power yachts, he was designing the two twenty-raters 'Niagara' and 'Isolde' for British waters, and the new cup defender 'Defender.' ... They were single masted with a topmast and three headsails, double planked with mahogany on the outside, finished bright as several of the smaller fin keelers had been. They were sixty-five feet O.A., forty-five feet W.L., twelve feet beam, and ten feet draft. After a trial spin at Bristol their fin keels were unbolted and they were shipped abroad on the decks of steamers. 'Niagara' was owned by Howard Gould, one of the brothers who had owned 'Vigilant' on her visit to England the previous year. 'Isolde' was owned by Baron von Zedtwitz who was to be killed the next year in the famous 'Meteor'-'Isolde' collision on the Solent. 'Isolde' and 'Niagara' were sister ships, but during the next few years one or the other of them was painted white at times." ![]()
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📸 ISOLDE's sister, NIAGARA ca. 1895; HMM collection![]()
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