The _Aline_ just mentioned was another beauty of her day. Built by Messrs. Camper & Nicholson of Gosport in 1860, she was the first yacht to get away from the raking mast so well seen in the illustration of the _Alarm_. In the _Aline_ the mast was stepped almost upright and she was also given a running bowsprit and jib. Another fast ship was the famous _Egeria_, 153-ton schooner, built by Wanhill at Poole. She was at her prime during the ’sixties, and beat _Aline_ during the former’s maiden race in 1865. [Illustration: FIG. 115. THE “BLOODHOUND.” BUILT IN 1874.] During the ’seventies and till the ’eighties, the tendency was to build yachts whose dimensions were still deeper, narrower and longer. Beam was thought deserving of little consideration and altogether undervalued until the year 1886, when an entire change of feeling came. The illustration in Fig. 115 shows the wonderful old _Bloodhound_. She was built by Mr. William Fife of Fairlie in 1874 for the Marquis of Ailsa and was one of the famous class of 40-tonners which flourished during the ’seventies and into the ’eighties. During the six years she belonged to her first owner she won about £2500 worth of prizes, and afterwards changed hands. Last year, however, Lord Ailsa re-purchased her, and with new sails the old ship showed that her marvellous turn of speed had not deserted her. She did remarkably well during Cowes week until she had the misfortune to be sunk in collision with _L’Esperance_, and lay for some time at the entrance to Cowes fairway, a sad sight, with her masts showing above water and her crew at work salving what they could. She has since been raised, and this year is again racing with surprising success. [Illustration: FIG. 116. THE AUXILIARY TOPSAIL SCHOONER-YACHT “SUNBEAM.” REGISTERED TONNAGE, 227. OWNED BY LORD BRASSEY. _Photo. West & Son._] Few yachts, perhaps, are so well-known in name, at least, to the general reader, as the _Sunbeam_, in Fig. 116. Built in 1874, and owned by that enthusiastic yachtsman and experienced navigator Lord Brassey, the _Sunbeam_ is an auxiliary topsail-yard schooner. She was designed by Mr. St. Clare Byrne and is built of teak with iron frames. Her length over all is 170 feet; beam 27½ feet; depth 13¾ feet. Her displacement is 576 tons; her registered tonnage 227; her draught 13½ feet; while her sail area as now altered is 7950 square feet. She has cruised round the world, and been into almost every port where she could get. She raced across the Atlantic in 1905 to the Lizard, with the _Valhalla_ among the competitors, although it was not to be expected that she would come in first against such an extreme type as the _Atlantic_. In her time she has covered as her best run under canvas, 299 knots from noon to noon, whilst her highest speed, also under sail alone, was 15 knots. She is still happily with us, and is a familiar sight at Cowes, where she fits out. [Illustration: FIG. 117. THE YAWL “JULLANAR.” BUILT IN 1875.]