ss displacement, carried 2,400 “Genesta” by 36 tons, she carried a slightly larger This extreme narrowness, it should be said, was purely square feet more sail. The ‘‘ Thistle ” came to Ameri- sail spread. ca in 1887, with a record of being by far the fastest the result of the Thames rule, for the… … turn to the more rea- the deep, hollow keel, * America.”* sonable proportion of amounted to 50 tons. an earlier day, the (Reproduced from an old print.) The sail plan of the “Thistle” (see accom- *“Volunteer” was bv panying diagram) having a beam of 20 feet on a water- far the largest ever spread…
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