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| Keywords: Rose Dorothea-Lipton's Cup-1907 Fishermen's Race.jpg 108 7 ft m long weighed 108 tons with a gross register tonnage of 147 tons and a crew of 26 men As a part of Boston's Old Home Week celebration in August 1907 a cup was offered by Sir Thomas Lipton for a Fishermen ™s Race in Massachusetts Bay from Provincetown to Gloucester to Boston Despite losing her foretopmast in the final leg of the race the Rose Dorothea with her crew from Provincetown won the race by 2 1/2 minutes beating the schooner Jesse Costa She was was sold in 1916 to a Newfoundland company W Campbell J J McKay St John ™s Newfoundland which used her to ferry salt codfish and other supplies to Portugal On 16 February 1917 the German U-Boat submarine SM U-21 surfaced next to the schooner as it approached Portugal approximately 15 nmi km off Cabo de Santa MarÃa 36 50 N 8 25 W After allowing her crew to evacuate into lifeboats the U-Boat sank her <ref name RD> cite web http //uboat net/wwi/ships_hit/5202 html Rose Dorothea Uboat net 27 September 2012 </ref><ref name banner-rose > cite news Sowers Pru Victory of the Rose Dorothea 100 years later http //www provincetownbanner com/article/news_article/_/49454/News/7/26/2007 17 May 2012 Provincetown Banner 26 July 2007 </ref> Library of Congress Call Number LC-D4-22494 <P P> P P<br />Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection<br />Notes <br />Possibly by Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins <br /> 4255 on negative <br />Detroit Publishing Co no 022494 <br />Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949 LOC-image det 4a16000 Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division Detroit Publishing Company Collection Call Number http //www loc gov/pictures/item/det1994016403/PP/ LC-D4-22494 Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949 possibly 1907 PD-Detroit 1922 References Reflist Rose Dorothea ship 1905 Black and white photographs Boats under sail Regatta sailing | ||||
