America's Cup 1893 the Champion Virgilant and Valkyrie
Vigilant was the victorious United States defender of the eighth America's Cup in 1893 against British challenger Valkyrie II. Vigilant was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. It was Herreshoff's first victorious America's Cup defender design. Vigilant was a centerboard sloop with all-metal (steel and bronze) construction. It was owned by a syndicate led by C. Oliver Iselin and which included Edwin D. Morgan, August Belmont, Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles R. Flint, Chester W. Chapin, George R. Clark, Henry Astor Carey, Dr. Barton Hopkins, Fulton, Jr. and Adrian Iselin. It was skippered by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff himself. Lord Dunraven's yacht, the Valkyrie is in the back.
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