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Detail - Hull 692

 
Status:DESTROYED
 
Original Name:WestwardCurrent Name:Westward
Hull No:692Home Port:
Contracted By:Alexander S. CochranCurrent Owner(s):
Contract Date:10/1/1909Owner Since:
Class:SchoonerSail Number:
Sub-Class:
Original Rig:Schooner
Current Rig:
Original Price:$118,000Restored By:
LOA:135 ft. 0 in.Maintained By:
LWL:96 ft. 0 in.Notes:
Beam:26 ft. 8 in.
Draft:16 ft. 11 in.
Designer:NGH
Other Resources:HCR
Gallery / Galleries:
 
Provenance:

OwnerYearsLocationBoat NameSail No.
Alexander S. Cochran1910 - 1911 Westward5
Nordduetschen Regatta Verein Seefahrt1912 - 1919Hamburg, GermanyHamburg II 
Clarence Hatry1919 - 1924Southampton, EnglandWestward 
Warwick Brookes1924 - 1924London, EnglandWestward 
Thomas B. Davis1924 - 1947Channel IslandsWestward 

Launched 3/31/1910. Scuttled on July 14, 1947. One of Herreshoff's best known schooners was Westward which found its way to Britain and raced with the Big Class under the ownership of a Jersey man, Mr. TB Davis. Her plans now reside at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but the original model of Westward was given to Davis and his daughter when they visited Herreshoff on Rhode Island some time after Westward had won the King's Cup in 1935. They had been given a tour of the model room by Herreshoff who told Mr. Davis he could have the model if he could pick it out from the many displayed there, which he did. This and other Westward memorabilia are on display the the Marine Museum in Jersey, Channel Islands. In accordance with his will, Mr. Davis' daughter had WESTWARD sunk in the Hurd Deep, off Jersey, in the Channel Islands, where Mr. Davis had kept WESTWARD for many years.





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