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Portrait of the Schooner Magic, made the year it won the America's Cup.
lithograph gives measurements of the vessel.
The Schooner Yacht Magic of the New York Yacht Club; Franklin Osgood Esq. Owner and Commander. Winner of the great international yacht race for the Queen's cup at New York Aug. 8; 1870. Beating seventeen competitors including the English Yacht Cambria and the famous Yachts Dauntless; Idler; Fleetwing; Phantom; America and others. This is a description of the first America's Cup defense when the trophy was still known as the Queen's Cup. The winning yacht; Magic; was originally launched in 1857 as the sloop Madgie. She was designed by R.F. Loper of Philadelphia and built by Byerly & Son in New York. Her rig was changed to a schooner and she was renamed Magic in 1859. She won the first defense of the America's cup in 1870; when she was thirteen years old.
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