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 Photo date: 1895. |
 Photo date: 1894. Probably Newport Yacht Club. |
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 August 7, 1891. Start of Goelet Cup Race. |
 Photo date: Aug. 7, 1891. |
Volunteer was the victorious defender of the seventh America's Cup in 1887 against Scottish challenger Thistle. The December 1886 issue of Outing magazine has an article entitled "Volunteer & Thistle. The First Race" that chronicles a 1886 race between these two yachts.According to Americascup.com, Volunteer was designed by Edward "Ned" Burgess and built by Pusey & Jones Shipbuilding Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 66 days in 1887. They write:
"Volunteer was the third and last defender designed by Edward Burgess. It won all the races sailed before the America's Cup. The selection trials were held in September. Two races were scheduled, but due to lack of wind, only one was sailed, on September 1887. Volunteer met Mayflower (1886), owned by E.D. Morgan. It easily beat the 'old' defender. ... Soon after the Cup races, the Eastern YC Commodore, J. Malcolm Forbes, bought Volunteer. He already owned Puritan (1885). [In] 1891 Volunteer was altered as a schooner. [In] 1906 Henry Forbes becomes the new owner of Volunteer. [In] Spring 1909, Charlie Barr, threetime America's Cup winning skipper, [bought] Volunteer. [In] 1910 Charlie Barr sail[ed] Volunteer to New York, to the junkyard where it is broken up.
"Yacht Club: New York Yacht Club, New York, USA
Owner: General Charles J. Paine.
Centerboard compromise sloop
Mast and rig: George Lawley and son, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Skipper: Captain Hank Haff assisted by Captains Terry, Berry and L. Jeffreys.
Afterguard: General Charles J. Paine, Edward Burgess, George H. Richards, Dr. Henry Bryant, Joseph S. Fay and Captain Joseph Ellsworth."For more information, see http://www.americascup.com/en/acclopaedia/circlinggalaxy/bateau.php?idContent=4694