. Book of the Royal blue . d her out asa racer and the next year, under an p]nglishcrew, lost a race over a course around theIsle of Wight. But Lord de Blaquire wasnot discouraged. He next offered to sailthe schooner against any nation in theworld except America, for a purse of £ offer was accepted by the Swedishschooner Sverize, who lost the .America had more or less successin several races afterwards, and finallyLord de Blaquire turned her into a cruisingyacht and cruised the Mediterranean. He the America and sailed for Mobile, she changed hands again and wasgiven th
. Book of the Royal blue . d her out asa racer and the next year, under an p]nglishcrew, lost a race over a course around theIsle of Wight. But Lord de Blaquire wasnot discouraged. He next offered to sailthe schooner against any nation in theworld except America, for a purse of £ offer was accepted by the Swedishschooner Sverize, who lost the .America had more or less successin several races afterwards, and finallyLord de Blaquire turned her into a cruisingyacht and cruised the Mediterranean. He the America and sailed for Mobile, she changed hands again and wasgiven the name of Memphis. Duringthe civil war she was used in running theblockade along the coast of Georgia andFlorida. In this service she was pursuedby the United States frigate Wabash,and was forced to run u[) the St. JohnsRiver, Florida; was scuttled and sunk. Atthe close of the civil war the governmentraised her and found her in good was afterward rebuilt and used as apractice ship for the cadets of the Naval. (ourtos) of Uslii-s Wckl).Copyri^ltt by Judge Company. sold her to Lord Templeton, who continuedusing her as a cruising yacht, then she wasdismantled and laid up in the mud at Cowesfor several years. A shipbuilder after-ward bought her for a small sum and shewas rebuilt. He sold her to another partyin 18t)0, and the new owner rigged her outin a new style of rigging, naming her theCamilla. The Camilla was enteredat the Royal Ulster Yacht Club races thesame year and easily won. The boat wasthen taken on a long cruise in the WestIndies and was subsequently brought backto England and entered as a racer. , her owner at that time, renamed her Academy at Annapolis, where she remaineduntil 1S70. When James Ashbury challenged forthe cup in 1870, popular sentimentdemanded that the America be thedefender of the cup; consequently she wasrebuilt at a cost of about .1^,000, but inthe trial speeds she was hardly up to theimprovements in yacht building
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