Galatea

Galatea was the unsuccessful Scottish challenger of the sixth America's Cup race in 1886 against American defender Mayflower. Design Galatea, a gaff cutter, was designed by John Beavor-Webb and built in 1885 for owner Lieutenant William Henn, R.N. of the Royal Northern Yacht Club. Henn named her after HMS Galatea, on which he had served from 1862 to 1866. The all-metal Galatea had a steel frame, a lead-filled steel keel, and a riveted steel-planked hull, painted white. The deck was teak. Career Galatea was launched in May 1885. After a series of mostly losses in British races, the owner and his wife sailed to New York in the summer of 1886.