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| Oxford boat |
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| Brief Description: Oxford's boat race winner 1829. A clinker built boat designed to resemble a cutter |
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| Subject Date: 1828 |
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| Creator: Stephen Davies and Isaac King |
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| Owner: River and Rowing Museum |
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| Contributor: River and Rowing Museum |
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| Full Description: This boat won the first Oxford and Cambridge University Boat race at Henley in 1829, the Oxford crew having borrowed it from Balliol College. It was built by Stephne Davies and Isaac King of Oxford in 1828 to a design resembling a cutter. It illustrates the step in the evolution of boats designed for racing, being almosty twice as long and half as wide as an eight-man sea boat of the period. The boat is clinker built of spruce, with main timbers in oak and small ribs in ash. Oars were in ash and of variable length, around 4.3m, with narrow blades |
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| Place: Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire |
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| Dimensions: Height: 2560mm, Width: 1920mm |
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| Subject: River, Rowing, Thames, Enjoying |
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| Content Type: Artifact |
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| Location: River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames |
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| Unique ID: tp-rr-m68-i-00-001.jpg |
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| IPR: ThamesPilot |
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