Atlantic Limited 24"

Ready for Immediate Display - Not a Model Ship kit

• Accurate museum-quality scale replica of the real Atlantic racing yacht
• Fully assembled with all masts, sails and rigging already secure and taut
• Individual plank on frame construction of the hull using fine quality woods, with each plank and wood grain visible through the paint
• High quality Craftsmanship and Details over standard 24” model yachts, including:
  • Improved details and accuracy of all deck and hull details
  • Increased number of details and items on deck, including buckets and barrels, cleats, rope coils and more
  • Four accurate lifeboats with oars tied-down to deck
  • Deckhouses feature real pane windows
  • Higher quality sail material used for all sails
  • Significantly increased rigging with greater detail and accuracy
  • Metal anchors with wooden crossbars
  • Four flags and racing pennants fly from the masts and rigging
  • Lightly-starched sails never wrinkle or sag
• Limited production run of these model yachts
• Certificate of Authenticity individually numbered and signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris
• Significant research to guarantee accuracy of our sailing ship models includes sources such as photos, historical plans and original artwork
• Removable base features Atlantic nameplate

The ATLANTIC, a three-masted racing schooner, was built in 1903 at the Townsend and Downey shipyard for Wilson Marshall.

Two years later she achieved her greatest honor when she was one of eleven yachts to compete for and win the "Ocean Race" and its large trophy, the Emperor's Cup, put up by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.

Atlantic's professional captain Charles Barr, a veteran of America's Cup campaigns in Columbia (1899 and 1901) and Reliance (1903), drove the powerful schooner through a violent gale to a crossing in 12 days, 4 hours. Her 348-mile day's run on May 23-24 has never been bettered, and her overall time was not beaten until 1968

Sold to James Cox Bradley, Atlantic had the distinction of serving in World War I as a mother ship for submarine chasers, and after World War I she was sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Atlantic did little racing thereafter and in World War II she was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard for use in antisubmarine duty. Following the war she was brought to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy for sail training from from 1941-1947.