Name: DAVID BRACKMAN (BRITISH, 1932-2008)
Brand: Germania leading Britannia and Satanita off Cowes, with the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert III beyond
Price: 7000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

DAVID BRACKMAN (BRITISH, 1932-2008)
Germania leading Britannia and Satanita off Cowes, with the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert III beyond
signed 'DAVID BRACKMAN' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 36 in. (58.4 x 91.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 January 1993, lot 164, where purchased by the present owner.

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Germania was a magnificent all-steel schooner designed by Max Oertz in Hamburg and built by Krupp Germania Werft at Kiel in 1908. Ordered by Dr. Krupp von Bohlen & Halbach in direct response to Kaiser Wilhelm II's obsessive passion for yachting and his consequent desire to see German successes at Cowes, she was a beautiful creation and much admired wherever she went. Registered at 191 tons gross (124 net & 366 Thames), she measured 123 feet in length with a 27 foot beam and carried sails by Mählitz. Surviving the Great War, she passed into the hands of a Norwegian owner, Christoffer Hannevig, who renamed her Exen.

Satanita was built in 1893 for A.D. Clarke to a Sopher design. With a waterline length of 93 feet 6 inches and a mainsail of almost 5,000 square feet she was capable of speeds of up to 17 knots, the fastest ever reached by a racing gaff cutter. Ultimately she was cut down to a yawl rig and sold into the Mediterranean where her owners included the Hollywood star, Errol Flynn.

Britannia, built for King Edward VII when Prince of Wales in 1893, was undoubtedly the most famous racing cutter of them all. Hugely successful during her long life, she won 33 firsts out of 39 starts in her maiden season and competed against all the fastest yachts of the day. Sold in 1897 - although bought back for cruising in 1901 by which time the Prince of Wales had succeeded to the throne - her second racing career really came into its own when King George V had her refitted for big class competitions in 1921. Under the King's enthusiastic ownership, Britannia went from strength to strength. Despite being re-rigged seven times in all, her hull shape was so efficient that she remained competitive almost to the end and was only finally outclassed by the big J-class boats introduced in the mid-1930s. King George V died in 1936 and under the terms of his will, Britannia was stripped of her salvageable gear and scuttled off the southern tip of the Isle of Wight.