47. Colonia	55. Colonia Photo date: June 16, 1896. This photo appeared in the December 1896 edition of The Rudder.	111a. Colonia, Amorita, and Emerald Photo date: Sept. 12, 1896. Probably at Larchmont Yacht Club.
141. Colonia Photo date: June 20, 1896. This photo appears in an article entitled 'The Larchmont Regatta Week' of the Sep 1897 issue of Outing. It is credited as "Johnston photo." The caption is 'The Flagship Colonia.' Same picture is in the Oct 1896 issue of Outing in an article entitled 'Racing Schooners.' Credit: Photo by J. S. Johnston, New York.'	282. Colonia, 1893.	283. Colonia, 1893.
284. Colonia. June 11, 1896.	284a. Colonia, 1893.	371. Colonia

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Colonia was rigged at various times as a sloop as well as a schooner. Photos #47 & 141 show the Colonia with a sloop rigging and Photos #55 & 111a with a schooner rigging.

The 85' steel cutter Colonia was built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Company for owners Archibald Rogers, J. Pierpont Morgan, F. W. Vanderbilt & W. K. Vanderbilt as a candidate for the defense of the 1893 America's Cup. It barely lost to Vigilant in the trials to defend the 8th America's Cup in 1893 with Captain Hank Haff. According to Americascup.com, "Vigilant won the 1893 American selection trials for the Cup defence and had beaten Colonia, Jubilee and Pilgrim."

According to the August 1896 issue of Outing magazine, Colonia was owned by C. A. Postley.

According to The Pictorial History of the America's Cup Races by Robert W. Carrick, Colonia "measured 124' on deck and was typical of the trend to long overhanging bows. Colonia was narrower [than Vigilant] and had a keel."

Owner A. C. Smith added a centerboard, and it may have been rebuilt as Corona in 1902 at C&R Poillon shipyard in Brooklyn, NY.