3-053-752 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The cutter-yacht Kriemhilda winning Her Majesty's Cup at the Royal Albert Yacht Club Regatta, 1873. 'At the regatta of this club at Southsea, on the 19th August, the race for the Queen's Cup was an event of much interest. It was contested by thirteen vessels of different classes, from the schooner Gwendoline, of 200 tons, down to the Vanguard and Arethusa, cutters of 50 to 60 tons, a time allowance being made for size and rig. The course was from Cowes twice round the Warner Light-ship and back to Cowes. This was accomplished within three hours and thirty-four minutes by the winning yacht, which was the cutter Kriemhilda, belonging to Count Batthyany, rear-commodore of the club squadron. This vessel has lately carried all before her. The next yachts in were Mr. Jessop's yawl Florinda, and Mr. J. Wylie's cutter Oimara, eight minutes after the Kriemhilda; the schooners Pantomime and Egeria, and after these the little Arethusa, Iona, and Vanguard, but last of all the Gwendoline and Speranza came to the goal within half an hour. Our Illustration is a view of the scene at the end of the race'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.