Miniature Display Model of America Racing Yacht & Schooner Hand Crafted Wooden Yacht Replica, HandMade Museum Quality Models

Miniature Display Model of America Racing Yacht & Schooner Hand Crafted Wooden Yacht Replica, HandMade Museum Quality Models -  About America. America arguably the most famous racing yacht in history was designed and built to demonstrate to the Old World that New World technology had matured enough not only to be competitive, but also to be superior. On August 22,1851, AMERICA was declared the winner of a 53-mile clockwise race around the Isle of Wight. After a large fireworks display viewed by about 7,000 on lookers, the crew was celebrated by the members of the RYS. And on August 25, at her anchorage off Osborne House, the schooner was honored by a visit from Queen Victoria and her entourage. The rebuilt CAMILLA was sold to Henry Edward Decie in 1860. Decie took her to America the following year, most likely with the intention of providing service to the southern rebels during the Civil War. And in fact she was purchased later that year by the Confederates, in an arrangement that kept Decit as her captain until 1862. However, the schooner had a relatively short history as a blockade runner, (one account shows her renamed as MEMPHIS), and she was scuttled later in 1862 when Jacksonville was taken by Union troops. A Union Navy Lieutenant had her raised and repaired. She was renamed AMERICA and put back to work, this time on the Union side of the blockade. In 1863 she was ordered to Newport to service as a training ship for midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy.