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Herreshoff Yachting Legacy Grows To World Fame and Cup
Over the years the Bristol yard launched nine sailing crafts 22 to 35 feet with John B Herreshoff and Nat shaping designs. The firm expanded buying Burnside Rifle factory for a saw mill and later built steamers like Annie Morse and Seven Brothers. By 1890 the brothers gained international renown as Nat oversaw part making and shipyard work. In the 1890s they built two cat yawls for Commodore Morgan then the Gloriana and Wasp, earning a bid to build the America's Cup Defender Vigilant and Colonial.
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John B
Herreshoff
Annie Morse
Nat
Bristol
Commodore E D Morgan
New York
Nat Herreshoff
Herreshoff Brothers
New York Yacht Club
Royal Yacht Clad Squadron
John Brown Herreshoff
James Swan
T P Brightman
Swan