&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Coquette_Yacht.jpg) The Coquette, Yacht and Pilot Boat, painted by C. Drew.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Coquette |
| Namesake | bark Coquette |
| Owner | James A. Perkins, a yachtsmen |
| Operator | Elbridge Gerry Martin |
| Builder | Louis Winde |
| Launched | 1846 |
| Out of service | October 5, 1867 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | schooner |
| Tonnage | 80-tons burthen |
| Length | 66 ft 5 in (20.24 m) |
| Beam | 19 ft 0 in (5.79 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) |
| Depth | 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) |
| Propulsion | Sail (yacht) |
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| Notes | Two staterooms, six berths, cook room, water-tanks, closets; four berths in the forecastle |
The Coquette was a 19th-century yacht and pilot boat, built in 1845 by Louis Winde, at the Winde & Clinkard shipyard in Chelsea, Massachusetts for yachtsmen James A. Perkins. Her design was based on a model by shipbuilder Dennison J. Lawlor. The Coquette was a good example of an early American yacht with a clipper bow. As a yacht, she won the attention for outsailing the larger New York yacht Maria at the second New York Yacht Club regatta in 1846. Perkins sold the Coquette to the Boston Pilots' Association for pilot service in 1848. She continued as a pilot boat until 1867 when she was sold as a Blackbirder to be used on the African coast.