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Title
Tinkerbelle
Sloop
Subject
Transportation
Boats
Sailing
Transatlantic voyages
Place
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Willowick (Ohio)
Lake County (Ohio)
Description
In the
summer
of
1965
,
Robert
Manry
, a
48-year-old
from
Willowick
Ohio
,
made
a
solo
78-day
,
3,200-mile
crossing
of the
Atlantic
Ocean
in this
13.5-foot
(4.15
m)
centerboard
sailboat
christened
Tinkerbelle
.
Manry
left
Falmouth
,
Massachusetts
on
June
1
for
Falmouth
,
England
.
Along
the
way
he was
knocked
overboard
six
times
and had to
repair
a
broken
rudder
. His
progress
was
covered
by
news
services
, and the
Cleveland
Plain
Dealer
flew
his
wife
and
two
children
to
England
to
meet
him.
Manry
landed
at
Falmouth
on
August
17
,
1965
. His
diminutive
cruiser
was the
smallest
craft
to
ever
accomplish
the
feat
to that
time
.
Tinkerbelle
was a
converted
stock
sailboat
, the
1932
"
Whitecap
"
sloop
manufactured
by the
Old
Town
Canoe
Company
of
Old
Town
,
Maine
.
Manry
(1918-1971)
was
born
in
Landour
,
India
, to
Presbyterian
missionaries
Dr
.
James
C
. and
Margaret
Manry
. He
left
India
in
1936
,
studied
briefly
in
China
, and
enrolled
at
Antioch
College
in
1937
,
receiving
an
bachelor's
degree
in
1948
after
serving
in
World
War
II
.
Manry
worked
as a
newspaper
reporter
Washington
Court
House
,
Ohio
, and
Pittsburgh
and
Erie
,
Pennsylvania
,
before
coming
to
Cleveland
in
1953
to
work
at the
Plain
Dealer
as a
copy
editor
.
Creator
Old Town Canoe Company
Date of Original
1932
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
67.45.1
Submitting Institution
Western Reserve Historical Society
Rights
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http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2618_2821059_001.tif
Image Height
1728
Image Width
2630
File Size
1371.757 KB
Format
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;
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