80. Vigilant	147. Vigilant (Photo date Aug. 5, 1895)	148. Vigilant (Photo date Aug. 5, 1895)
198. Vigilant (1895)	290. Vigilant, 1893.	292a. Vigilant, 1893.
293a. Vigilant	307. Vigilant, 1893.	308. Vigilant, 1893.
309. Vigilant, 1893. Possibly taken during America's Cup race.	314c. Valkyrie and Vigilant. Photo dated Oct. 13(?).	315. Vigilant, 1893.
387. Valkyrie II and Vigilant: The Start

Vigilant was the victorious defender of the eighth America's Cup in 1893 against British challenger Valkyrie II. It was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, RI. According to Americascup.com:

"Vigilant was the first victorious defender designed and built by the ingenious American designer, nicknamed the Wizard of Bristol, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. Nat Herreshoff repeated this success in 1895, 1899, 1901, 1903 and in 1920. Vigilant won the 1893 American selection trials for the Cup defence and had beaten Colonia, Jubilee and Pilgrim.

"In 1894 Vigilant was sold to Howard Gould. It was the first defender to sail in Europe to race the British yachting season. The boat's reputation was harmed. It raced sixteen times against the already famous Britannia (1893), the future royal cutter designed by George Lennox Watson. Vigilant was beaten twelve times by Britannia in the Solent! Vigilant raced the elimination trials for the 1895 America's Cup defence won by Defender the last new Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Cup craft. [During] 1896 - 1906, [there were] five different owners for Vigilant. It was only sailed for cruising. [In] 1906 [Vigilant was] bought by William Iselin who sailed it until 1910. [In] 1910 Vigilant was sold to a junkyard in New London. It was broken up in 1910.

"Yacht Club: New York Yacht Club, New York, USA
Owner: Syndicate led by C. Oliver Iselin, and formed by Edwin D. Morgan, Augustus Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles R. Flint, Chester W. Chapin, George R. Clark, Henry Astor Carey, Dr. Barton Hopkins, E.M. Fulton, Jr. and Adrian Iselin.
Centerboard sloop
Sailmaker: Herreshoff
Skipper: Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
Captain: William Hansen
Afterguard: Edward A. Willard, Herbert C. Leeds, Newberry Thorne, Woodbury Kane, W. Butler Duncan, Jr. and Captain Norman Terry."

For more information, see http://www.americascup.com/en/acclopaedia/circlinggalaxy/bateau.php?idContent=4692 .

The owners of Vigilant included C. Oliver Iselin (c. 1854-1932), August Belmont (1853-1924), and Cornelius Vanderbilt (1843-1899). In 1895 William K. Vanderbilt (1849-1920) participated in the support of Defender. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was among those who underwrote the 1899 winner, Columbia, and William Rockefeller (1841-1922) was one of the underwriters of the 1903 winner, Reliance.