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Rare Antique ID'd Schooner Yacht Ship "Ambrotype" Capt Badger Cabinet Card Photo!
Fantastic Antique Victorian American Nautical Cabinet Card Photograph!
"Yacht Ambrotype - Sailed by Solon B. Badger 1868-1907"
Photographer: Unknown
Location: Massachusetts
Date: C.1899 - 1905
INFO:
Originally Built For:
"James A. Cutting who had an amusement enterprise in Boston called the "Aquarial Gardens," for which he collected specimens of sea life in the yacht. Tímbera of a well built in her for keeping specimens alive are still to be seen in her frame.
The Ambrotype registers 8 89-95 tons, She Is 35 feet 6 inches over all, 33 feet waterline and 11 feet 4 Inches beam. with a least freeboard of two feet. Her mainmast is 42 feet 6 inches long. foremast 42 feet, topmast 14 feet, bowsprit 17 feet."
(Nov 1, 1907 - Boston Globe)
Built By:
"The Ambrotype is the last surviving example of the work of Louis Winde, s designer and builder of yachts, who had a yard in Chelsea and a boat shop on Commercial st, Boston, near Battery wharf, from the 30's to just before the civil war.
Mr Winde built several fast yachts, including the schooner Northern Light, which was launched in 1839, and was owned by Col William P. Winchester, for whom the town of Winchester was named. The Northern Light was lost In the Magellan straits in 1849.
Winde also built the schooner Coquette, a very fast yacht, which was used as a Boston pilot boat for 20 years, prior to 1867, when she was sold to go into the west coast of Africa trade." (Nov 1, 1907 - Boston Globe)
Captain Berger:
"Capt Solon B. Badger, for 48 years of the schooner yacht Ambrotype, which was built in the Spring of 1868, and one of the oldest members of the Bunker Hill Yacht Club, of which he was commodore, died yesterday at his home, 5 Trenton st, Charlestown. Capt. Badger was widely-known yachtsman and a resident of Charlestown over 60 years. He had made many long trips in the Ambrotype. For 21 years Mrs Badger was his shipmate on his cruises. For many years he was in charge of the lighting plant of the Boston terminal. Capt. Badger is survived by his two sons." (Feb 13, 1918 - Boston Evening Globe)
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