Puritan defends the America’s Cup.

[9/14] The Puritan, which was launched from George Lawley and Sons’ shipyard in South Boston on May 26, 1884, beats the Genesta off Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Owned by group former by Gen. Charles Paine, the sloop is designed by Edward Burgess, and skippered by A.J. Crocker. In the first of what came to be called the America’s Cup races, the schooner America defeated more than a dozen British boats near the Isle of Wight on August 22, 1851.