Built as a mono-hull yacht by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island for a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters to content the 1914 America’s Cup.
Designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.
25 April 1914 launched as the RESOLUTE and christened by Grace Vanderbilt.
Displacement 95.7 ton. Dim. 32.43 x 6.43 x 4.23m (draught), length on waterline 22.58 m.
Sail area 815.22 m².
She was the last Cup defender to be designed by Herreshoff.
Under skipper Charles Francis Adams III she took part in the America Cup challenge race off Sandy Hook, she beat VANITIE and DEFIANCE, she was sailing the race distance of 30 miles in 3 hour 16 minutes and 41 seconds.
August 1914 when war was declared between the UK and Germany the America Cup race was postponed and also the challenge races.
1920 The America Cup was reconvened and RESOLUTE again prevailed in the selection races before successfully under skipper Charles Francis Adams III defending the America Cup 1920.
RESOLUTE lost the first two races before she won the next three races against the SHAMROCK IV under skipper William Burton.
Her racing career lasted another ten years, and in 1930 RESOLUTE again participated in the America's cup selection races, albeit as a "trial horse" against which the potential defenders could be judged.
In 1925 RESOLUTE was sold to E. Walter Clark of Philadelphia.
1931 Converted to the J-class.
1939 Scrapped.
Robert F Kennedy named his Wianno Senior Resolute in 1964, after the America's Cup yacht.
More on the yacht is given on: http://america-scoop.com/index.php?opti ... 99&lang=en
Grenada 1987 60c sg 1612, scott1492.
Grenadines of Grenada 1987 60c sg1580, scott1477. (The SHAMROCK IV is the yacht in the foreground with the green hull.)
Nevis 1989 80c sg724, scott766.
Solomon Islands 1986 18c sg570a, scott?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_(yacht) Internet. History of the America Cup 1851-2003 by Ranulf Rayner.