Atlantic Limited 24"

SOLD FULLY ASSEMBLED - JUST PULL OUT OF THE BOX AND DISPLAY
NO masts to assemble, NO rigging to tie, NO wrinkled sails, NO hassles!
Don't buy from other sellers until you ask if it is FULLY ASSEMBLED!

24" H x 4" W x 20" L (1:93 scale)

This newly designed Limited Edition museum-quality scale replica Atlantic yacht is offered exclusively by Handcrafted Model Ships, and includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris, as only 250 will ever be made. Accurate in almost every detail to the original Atlantic yacht, our Atlatnic model yacht offers features not available by other sellers such as:

-  Arrives fully assembled
-  Cloth flags
-  More accurate and higher-quality deck components and details
-  Separate display base

 The Limited Edition Atlantic Yacht features the following upgrades over our regular Atlantic model yacht: 

-  Additional and higher-quality deck details
-   4 Authentic cloth flags have been added including an American Flag
-   Additional deck planks have been added and stained to match the actual Atlantic yacht
-   Upgraded, accurately scaled solid metal ship wheel has been added
-   Additional upgraded structures on the deck have been added, including intricately painted windows
-   4 scale tied-down lifeboats with 2 scale oars on the deck has been added, to mimic the real Atlantic

- Atlantic name has been added to the stern of the hull just like the real Atlantic

- A scale lifesaver added to the stern of the deck
-   The hull is meticulously painted the actual colors of the original Atlantic yacht.  Look closely on the red hull and you can see the individual planks and wood grain
-   Higher-quality sails with additional rigging:  The sails are slightly starched to hold their shape and a higher quality and higher thread-count material is used, similar to that of the actual Atlantic yacht at the time it sailed.  We offer three unique sail materials that are matched to the different eras of model yachts we offer.  Also, additional rigging lines have been added to be more true to the actual Atlantic yacht
-     Removable base:  The Limited Edition Yacht can be removed from the high-quality wooden display base.  Accordingly it can be cleaned and examined in detail much more easily. 

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.