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THE SCHOONER “ROSE DOROTHEA” AND THE “LIPTON CUP” During 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. This race of 42 miles was one of the best ever sailed by fishermen in these waters. Sir Thomas Lipton, the graeat Irish sports enthusiast, and designer Tom McManus promoted the Fishermen's Race, and Sir Thomas promised McManus the most expensive and best trophy England could make.The Lipton Cup is a silver gilt and enamel trophy and, true to his word, was the largest cup ever minted by Sir Thomas Lipton. The "Rose Dorothea" swept to victory in the Fishermen's Race on August 1, 1907 and brought the Lipton Cup back to Provincetown with great fanfare, a broom symbolically tied to her mast to indicate a "clean sweep." No other race was ever sailed to place this cup in contention. The men known to be crew members at the time of the race were: Antone Amaral, Isadore Jesse Fratus, Joseph R. Holmes, Willie Jason, Joseph Leal, Manuel Marshall, Manuel Perry, Antone Prada, Thomas O'Donnell, Eduardo Salvador, William Silva, Manuel Souza, Joseph "Iron Horse" Vera, John Wilson. The other crew members are not known.  |
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