. Book of the Royal blue . 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
. Book of the Royal blue . 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 and didnot sail the race. It was claimed at thetime it was the fault of the sails, whichwere not properly made. She was sold atauction to General Benj. Butler, who wasthe highest bidder, the price paid being$5,000. General Butler owned her until he THE IXIERNATIONAL CUP I;«). AM ) lyf Lcsli<?» WVcltl) upyrigbt by Judge Coui|iany. died, using her almost exclusively as acruiser. Under his ownership she ran arace with the Resolute at the Isle ofShoals and won. During the Centennialshe sailed in another race from Sandy Hookto Cape May and won, the time being forty-two hours. She almost met her fate thesame year by being wrecked off theBrigantine Shoals. She was taken up toBrooklyn, fitted out with a new keel andput in commission again. In 1880 she wasagain overhauled and rebuilt. In 1881,1885 and 188() she had received so muchoverhauling that she was practically a newboat. At the death of General Butler theyacht passed into the hands of Butler Amesand was laid up in dock at Boston. In1897 Mr. Ames fitted her out as a cruiserand wherever she appeared was hailedwith delight. In the race of the Shamrock I againstthe Columbia in 1899, the Americawas prominent on the line, looking as trimas a new
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