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The famous racing yacht Atlantic. Designed by William Gardner for Wilson Marshall and built in 1903 by the Townsend & Downey shipyard, this steel-hulled, three-masted schooner had a deck length of 187 feet. In 1905 she won the “Kaiser Wilhelm Cup” in a Transatlantic race from Sandy Hook, New York to The Lizard, Cornwall, with a time of 12 days, 4 hours and 1 minute, a mono-hull record that stood for 100 years. She served the war effort from 1941 to 1947 as a US Coast Guard training vessel, and was broken up at Newport Harbor, Virginia in 1982.
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