Bath Iron Works photo
”J” Class Ranger, Olin Stephens-
designed 1937 America’s Cup winner, built at Bath concurrent with destroyer production: keel laid 22 December 1936, launched 11 May 1937.
Owner: Harold S. Vanderbilt
Length: 135'-6"
Beam: 20'8"
Depth: 19'
Draft: 13'-6"
Displacement: 166.5 tons
Mast: 165'
Won 32 of 37 races entered. Sailed only in 1937; keel melted down for the war effort; scrapped, 1941.
