USA – Dick Brown was a New York and Sandy Hook pilot who sailed the schooner-yacht AMERICA to England in the summer of 1851, and was at her helm when […]
Induction Class: 1999
James Buttersworth
England 1817 – 1894 James E. Buttersworth was born in 1817 in Middlesex County, England to a family of marine artists. After producing brilliant paintings of principally British sailing ships […]
Sir Frank Packer
Australia – In 1962, Sir Frank Packer issued a challenge for the America’s Cup through the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. When the Duke of Edinburgh proposed a Commonwealth effort, rather […]