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Victoria |
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Brief Description: Victoria - fixed seat coxed four |
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Subject Date: 1855 |
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Creator: Matt Taylor |
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Owner: River and Rowing Museum |
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Contributor: River and Rowing Museum |
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Full Description: Mather Taylor of Newcastle-on-Tyne built this boat for Royal Chester RC in 1855. It is the earliest surviving example of carvel smooth-bottomed construction, created by bringing the keel inboard. Royal Chester used it to win both the Stewwards' and the Wyfold challenge cups at Henley in that year. In the following year the club ordered an eight from Taylor in which they won the Grand and the Ladies' Plate. There is some evidence that another Tyne professional, Harry Clasper, built a keeless boat in 1842. Between them the Geordie boatbuilders opened the way to shell construction |
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Place: Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire |
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Dimensions: Height: 1920mm, Width: 2560mm |
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Subject: River, 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-m61-i-00-001.jpg |
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IPR: ThamesPilot |
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