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Title	Three sloop yachts at Sachem's Head.
Place	Sachem Head (Conn.)
Topic	Sloops Sailboats Boats and boating
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Kittiwake (Sloop)
Theme	Infrastructure Lifestyle
Description	Three sloop yachts, two under sail and one at anchor. The dark-hulled sloop in the center is Mystic Seaport's Herreshoff knockabout Kittiwake with P/130 visible on the mainsail. Handwritten on the back: "Kittywake [sic.] (black) & other Sewanika [sic.] Knockabouts at Sachem's Head, Conn".
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Kittiwake dimensions: 30'9" x 8'2" Kittiwake was a one-of-a-kind boat designed by N. G. Herreshoff for Louise Tiffany, 1907, and called Louise. Her hull is double-planked above the waterline. She was purchased by W. B. Lockwood in 1944. He renamed her the Kittiwake, and put on a new deck and cabin. Lockwood's daughter, Mary, raced her successfully in Long Island Sound. He donated the boat to Mystic Seaport in 1974 where she remains part of the watercraft collection.
Date created	[between 1944 and 1974]
Physical format	1 photograph : gelatin print ; 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1991.40.26 File name: IMG0068-1341.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport.
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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