Victoria
Victoria was designed by Alfred Mylne and built in 1921 at his Bute Slip Dock Co. boatyard on the Isle of Bute on the west coast of Scotland.
Victoria was the first Second rule Six Metre Class yacht built at Bute. She was built for Sir William P Burton K.B.E of Burstall, Ipswich and Sir Godfrey P Collins, K.B.E., C.M.G., M.P.
William Burton was a famous and prolific amateur skipper. He was at the helm of Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock IV (Charles Nicholson design) at the America’s Cup in 1913.
Godfrey Collins was a publisher and a Scottish Liberal Party politician.
Collins and Burton raced Victoria in the first British American Cup in 1921.
Victoria came fifth in the first British American Cup race and was disqualified in the second for reportedly “fouling the mark in rounding the east buoy.” She followed this up by coming seventh, sixth and fourth in the following three races, and first in the final race.
In 1925 Victoria was registered in Greenock, home to Sir Godfrey Collins, but owned by Ernest Davis who lived in Auckland, New Zealand.
By 1929 Victoria was bought by Robert Tronchin and Jaques Colle of Geneva and taken to Switzerland, where she would remain in ownership to this day.
Victoria and Sheila are the only two of the eight original British American Cup boats that are currently sailing, and both are in excellent condition.
Victoria was refurbished by Georg Smits in Arbon, and now sails on Lake Constance in Switzerland.
Text taken from The boats that sailed a century ago. Read more about Victoria and the British American Cup here.
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