Show YACHT VALKYRIE SUNK fatal collision between the yacht and the santanita all on board saved the great yacht club liace won from the vigilant by the britannia banters quay firth ol 01 clyde july 5 the regatta of the yacht club today opened amidst a scene of excitement which was soon after intensified fied by a collision between the and the santanita which resulted in the sinking of the former yacht and tho disabling of the latter then to still further excite the masses ashore and the people afloat the which had the start was overhauled and passed by the daucy vigilant no such interest was ever before shown here in a yacht race for the american flyer vigilant was to arnet for the first time the prince of wales cutter admitted to be the fastest yacht in all europe lord dunraven Dun raven with george L wilson the designer was steering the valkyrie A D clarke owner of the santanita was at her euck nat herres choal was at the wheel of the vigilant W jamison was of the the starl was made in a blinding the wind however belll holding good the vigilant and santanita came up to the line for a port tack to turn the mark boat while the valkyrie raced down from holy loche the vigilant turned handsomely and was on the mark boat shortly alter gun fire but the was quicker and got off three lengths ahead the santanita was unable to set out of the way as the latter was coming up on the starboard tack the bowsprit ran across the and the collision which ensued carried away the san fa bowsprit and topmast leaving her a wreck covered with tangled and collapsed sails the force of the collision cut the valkyrie Valk yrio down to the waters edge and she an sank in three minutes lord wat eon and the officers and crew of the valkyrie were picked up by boats which put out from the shore and from many sailing yachts and steam yachts in the vicinity the captain of abo santanita eaid he did not have room to turn owing to the great number of steam and other yachts about the starting line on the val kario a seaman had a kg badly crashed the yacht lies in twenty five fathoms of water first Bound The vigilant led by two minutes the vigilant continued to draw ahead turning the mark boat the bachta came on the run the vigilant carrying a great baloon and spinnaker jib which were drawing splendidly after rounding the ascog mark both jachts set their to starboard and the club topsails were replaced by jib heads at the weather mark jack cardera were get up and were run out to port and jib topsails were et under this eail both bachta ran toward Kil creegan and from here it appeared as if the britannia was closing up a little approaching cloce lighthouse on the ran home to the finish the vigilant was still leading and it was estimated that she was about minutes ahead the wind was softening but the britannia with her spinnaker down began to haul the vigilant in and passed her near gourock Go urock the britannia won the race the brittania passed the winning mark five second ahead of the vigilant amid the greatest enthusiasm the time of the brittani was hours 58 minutes vigilant hours 63 minutes ee conda the following is the corrected time of alie finish antannia 4 hours 28 minute 1 second vigilant 4 hours 28 minute 36 seconds |