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Title: King Edward VII. as a sportsman
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910 Horses Sports -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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f the crew would have jumped to the rescue had His Royal Highness gone overboard with the chair. It would have been amusing to see half the crew over the side and only a dinghy to rescue the lot. 319 King Edward VII. as a Sportsman As will be seen in the list of her races at the end of the book, her principal antagonists were one first-class older boat, the Iverna, five cutters of her own year, namely. Vigilant^ Valkyrie^ Satanita^ Navahoe^ and Calluna^ two later cutters, Aiha and Aurora^ as well as,in mixed races, the crack forty-raters. Caress^ Isolde^ and Corsair; and that she more than held her own with them all individually and collectively, finally only succumbing to the Meteor^ who was four years her junior, must oblige every one to admit that the Britannia was absolutely worthy of the illustrious Sportsman under whose racing flag she was so uniformly successful, and whose burgee and flag she flew for so many years on the Riviera, and at the head-quarters of the yachting world—Cowes. 320
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IMAGE: A Dead Heat - Vigilant and Britannia in the Solent

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