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Title: History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885
Subjects: Flags -- United States Seals (Numismatics) -- United States National songs -- United States Signals and signaling Flags
Publisher: Boston, Mass. New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tered in port. Mr. Bennett went out in the Henrietta, and Mr.George Lorillard in the Vesta. The Henrietta, Captain Samuels, carriedoff the honors, making the passage in 13 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes.^ The Henrietta was modelled by William Tooker, and built byHenry Steers, at Greenport. She was launched in June, 1861. Herdimensions were 107 feet on deck, 99 feet water line; tonnage, bycustom-house measurement, 205 tons. Soon after her launch the civil war began. Mr. Bennett gener-ously placed her at the disposal of the government. His offer wasaccepted, and the yacht was commissioned as a revenue cutter, and 1 We are indebted to the politeness of the publishers of Brcntanos Monthly forthe engra\dng of the Henrietta. The Log of the Vesta, by Col. Stuart M. Taylor, and How the Henrietta Won,by Stephen Fiske, published in Brentanos Monthly, are admirable records of the race.See, also, the illustrated paper on Yachts and Yachting in Scribners Monthly, vol. iv.,August, 1872. O >O W « oo
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712 AMERICAN YACHT CLUBS. (lid efficient service from New York to Florida, and at tlie close of thewar, in 18(35, returned to the service of the New York Yacht Club.In September, 1865, she was beaten by the Fleetwing, in a race aroundCape INlay Light-ship, by 1 hour, 19 minutes. In Octolier she wasdefeated by the Vesta over the same course, both her contestants inthe ocean race, when she came off victor. After the Henriettas return from the ocean race she was laid up,and ultimately sold for fifteen thousand dollars, to a Jioston gentle-man, for a fruiter; and, after making several siiccessful voyages, shewas lost off the coast of Honduras, Dec. 16, 1872, on her return voy-age to New Y^ork. The Henrietta will always be thought of as win-ner of the first mid-winter ocean yacht race across the Atlantic, andno subsequent yacht race can ever deprive her of its laurels. Afterher triumph, Mr. Bennett bought her antagonist, the Fleetwing, forsixty-five thousand dollars, and renamed her the Da

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