Yacht club | New York Yacht Club |
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Nation | United States |
Designer(s) | Nathanael Greene Herreshoff |
Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company |
Launched | June 10, 1899 |
Owner(s) | J. Pierpont Morgan and Edwin Dennison Morgan |
Fate | Broken up in 1915 |
Racing career | |
Skippers | Charlie Barr |
Notable victories |
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America's Cup | 1899, 1901 |
Specifications | |
Displacement | 148.7 tonnes |
Length | 40.15 m (131.7 ft) LOA 27.25 m (89.4 ft) LWL |
Beam | 7.39 m (24.2 ft) |
Draft | 5.97 m (19.6 ft) |
Sail area | 1,189 m2 (12,800 sq ft) |
Columbia was an American racing yacht built in 1899 for the America's Cup races. She was the defender of the tenth America's Cup race that same year against British challenger Shamrock[1] as well as the defender of the eleventh America's Cup race in 1901 against British challenger Shamrock II. She was the first vessel to win the trophy twice in a row[2] (a record not equaled until Intrepid's back-to-back wins in 1967 and 1970.)[3]