&sq=&lang=&file=File:Defender(yacht).jpg) Defender on July 20, 1895, six weeks before the 1895 America's Cup. | |
| Yacht club |  New York Yacht Club |
|---|---|
| Nation |  United States |
| Designer(s) | Nathanael Greene Herreshoff |
| Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company |
| Launched | 1895 |
| Owner(s) | William Kissam Vanderbilt, Edwin Dennison Morgan, Charles Oliver Iselin |
| Fate | Broken up in 1901 |
| Racing career | |
| Skippers | Henry C. Haff |
| Notable victories | 1895 America's Cup 1895 Defender Trials |
| America's Cup | 1895 |
| Specifications | |
| Displacement | 151.5 tons |
| Length | 123 ft 0 in (37.49 m) LOA 89 ft 1.5 in (27.165 m) LWL |
| Beam | 23 ft 1 in (7.04 m) |
| Draft | 19 ft 1 in (5.82 m) |
| Sail area | 12,602 sq ft (1,170.8 m2)[1] |
Defender was the victorious United States defender of the tenth America's Cup in 1895 against challenger Valkyrie III.[2] Defender was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1895. It was Herreshoff's second victorious America's Cup defender design.
- ^ Jones, Gregory O. (25 December 2004). Herreshoff Sailboats. Voyageur Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-7603-1160-8. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ "America's Cup Winners". Herreshoff Marine Museum. Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2012-07-23.