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1/350 USS America (1851) Masts
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USS America began life as a sailing yacht to 'show the flag' around the world, particularly in Britain, and make her a competitive racer in regattas. Built in 1851, in August of that year she won the 100 Guineas Cup, which was subsequently renamed America's Cup in her honour.
She was sold immediately after the race, and exchanged hands a few times in the following decade, before being purchased by the seceding Confederacy and employed as a blockade runner. At the time she was also renamed Memphis, but was scuttled in Florida when Union troops entered Jacksonville.
Raised, repaired, and retaking her former name, USS America was armed with three smoothbore guns and used in the naval blockade of the South.
After the war, the ship remained in US Navy service until 1873 when she was sold again, racing at sea until 1901; from there she ended up at the US Naval Academy of Annapolis, but the ship wasn't maintained and the shed in which was housed collapsed due to a heavy snowstorm in 1942. The yacht America was scrapped in 1945.
She was sold immediately after the race, and exchanged hands a few times in the following decade, before being purchased by the seceding Confederacy and employed as a blockade runner. At the time she was also renamed Memphis, but was scuttled in Florida when Union troops entered Jacksonville.
Raised, repaired, and retaking her former name, USS America was armed with three smoothbore guns and used in the naval blockade of the South.
After the war, the ship remained in US Navy service until 1873 when she was sold again, racing at sea until 1901; from there she ended up at the US Naval Academy of Annapolis, but the ship wasn't maintained and the shed in which was housed collapsed due to a heavy snowstorm in 1942. The yacht America was scrapped in 1945.
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