2-888-226 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Lowestoft Regatta, [Suffolk] - drawn by Duncan, 1850. '...not less than some fifteen thousand persons, or about four times the numerical amount of the resident population, assembled, ostensibly to see the Regatta, but fully one-half found amusement in various other charms which the coast and immediate inland presented...the yacht-race was everything that could be desired; and there being a stiff breeze, the seamanship exhibited in the run of twelve miles - six in and back - was most complimentary to all parties concerned. Still greater seamanship, however - or at least of a more unique kind - was exhibited in the race with the yawls, whose construction is peculiar to this coast, being of most graceful and elegant form, and with a very foreign air about them - an aspect not a little strengthened by the number of Dutch, and French, and other continental fishing craft frequenting the port'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.