PICTURES OF YESTERYEAR - Managed by PPL PHOTO AGENCY - COPYRIGHT RESERVEDCirca 1901 America’s Cup defence trials, Newport Rhode Island. A close start


PICTURES OF YESTERYEAR - Managed by PPL PHOTO AGENCY - COPYRIGHT RESERVEDCirca 1901 America’s Cup defence trials, Newport Rhode Island. A close start in the series organised by Newport Yacht Racing Association in July 1901, between INDEPENDENCE (left) CONSTITUTION and COLUMBIA. COLUMBIA, owned by the New York banker John Pierpont Morgan Sr.(JP Morgan) went on to defend the Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton’s Irish challenger SHAMROCK III, winning the series 3:0. Photograph by T. E. Marr. first published in the book The Lawson History of the America's Cup CREDIT: Bob Fisher Archive/PPL


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