In 1851 the yachtAmerica won the British100 Guinea regatta by 20 minutes. Watching the race, Queen Victoria is supposed to have asked who was second. The answer famously was: "There is no second, your majesty." That race, and the associated trophy, became the America's Cup. 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A yacht A yacht was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used to convey important persons. ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819–22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877 until her death. ... Some trophies seen in the London Irish clubhouse at Sunbury in 2002. ... The Americas Cup is the most famous and most prestigious trophy in the sport of yachting, and the oldest active trophy in international sports, predating the FA Cup by two decades and the Modern Olympics by 45 years. ...
The yacht was constructed for a syndicate headed bvJohn Cox Stevens, the commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and including other prominent sportmen who wished to win recognition for American shipbuilding and sailing skill during Crystal Palace exposition—the first of the great international world's fairs.
Before going north, the yacht scored one last time on the morning of 31 March when she sighted Antelope and brought that salt-laden British topsail schooner to with a shot across the blockade runner's bow, enabling boat parties from Memphis to seize her.
While America was at the New York Navy Yard, Kane received orders to uut to sea in search of CSS Tacony, a bark recently captured by the brig Clarence which had, in turn, been taken and manned by the Confederate commerce raider CSS Florida.
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