Date in year · 1900 · The 1900s
On July 7, 1900, the luxury raching yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan).
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Featured · July 7, 1900
The Idler was a schooner-yacht built in 1864 by Samuel Hartt Pook of Fairhaven, Connecticut. She was one of the fastest yachts in the New York yachting fleet. Idler came in second place in the America’s Cup in 1870.
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1900 (MCM) was an exceptional century common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last…
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Schooner yacht ''Idler''
The Idler was a schooner-yacht built in 1864 by Samuel Hartt Pook of Fairhaven, Connecticut. She was one of the fastest yachts in the New York yachting fleet. Idler came in second place in the America’s Cup in 1870.
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