The 'Alarm' Winning the Ladies Challenge Cup at Cowes, 14 August 1830

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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Previously called 'The 193-ton yacht Alarm in a light swell' but now retitled from the related print version (NMM PAD6514). This was one of 24 lithographed by Louis Haghe in 1832 as 'Views of the principal Seats, and Marine and Landscape Scenery in the vicinity of Lymington, Hants…’, from pictures by Gilbert, probably watercolours given that there are minor changes in this instance. The ‘Alarm’, here shown as a brand-new cutter, was one of the best known early Royal Yacht Squadron vessels. She was built by Thomas Inman at Lymington in 1830 for the famous yachtsman and landowner Joseph Weld (1777–1863) of Lymington and Lulworth Castle, Dorset. This was her very successful first season in which, cutter-rigged, she won both the Ladies Cup and, on 21st August, the prime trophy of Cowes Week that year – the King's Cup presented by the new king, William IV: the latter is also in the Museum collection (PLT0256).

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

The 'Alarm' Winning the Ladies Challenge Cup at Cowes, 14 August 1830

Date

c.1830

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 66 x W 89.6 cm

Accession number

BHC4182

Work type

Painting

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