Lord Dunraren's Yacht.
Tho four new cutters of the London season —A. Clarke's Satania, thelatest of the four j the Prince of Wales' Britannia, victor in the preceding week's races, and designed chiefly to beat the German Emperor's Meteor, and also to uphold the credit of England against the American cutter Navagoj Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie, which is to cross the Atlantic in August to endeavour to regain the American Cup; and the Culluna, owned by a syndicate headed by Pala Donaldson, along with Jameson's famous cutter Ivorna. —started on a race at 9.30 o'clock oil June 31th, from the south end ofg Lerwick, There was a brisk easterly wind, and the Britannia was in the lead at starting. Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie won the race. Once she took the lead the other contesants had no chance whatever. The Saatania was second home, followed by the Britannia. The Calluna, however, was given first place on time allowance.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11847, 19 July 1893, Page 3
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