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The Queen's Trophy
The Queen's Trophy: a yachting trophy in the form of a circular shield won by the racing cutter 'Alarm' in 1838.
The silver-gilt shield has a central boss cast and chased with Britannia in a sea chariot drawn by hippocamps, being offered a victor's wreath and palm branch by two female attendants. The flat border has a shipping scene in low relief with the Royal Arms at the bottom surmounting a shell cartouche inscribed: 'ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON, 1838. THE GIFT OF Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria'. The view of the yachts on the rim is based on a painting by Huggins formerly hanging in the Royal Yacht Squadron castle. At the top is the armed full-rigged ship 'Falcon', owned by Lord Yarborough, first Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, accompanied by other yachts of the Squadron including 'Alarm' (BHC4178, BHC4182), 'Pearl' and 'Waterwitch'.
The back of the shield has a large silver-gilt hanging ring and the trophy has a velvet-lined wooden box bearing the trade label of Rundell, Bridge & Company.
This trophy, the first Queen's Trophy of Queen Victoria's reign, was won by Joseph Weld's 193-ton cutter yacht, 'Alarm', at Cowes on 17 August 1838 (birthday of the Queen's mother, the Duchess of Kent).
The silver-gilt shield has a central boss cast and chased with Britannia in a sea chariot drawn by hippocamps, being offered a victor's wreath and palm branch by two female attendants. The flat border has a shipping scene in low relief with the Royal Arms at the bottom surmounting a shell cartouche inscribed: 'ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON, 1838. THE GIFT OF Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria'. The view of the yachts on the rim is based on a painting by Huggins formerly hanging in the Royal Yacht Squadron castle. At the top is the armed full-rigged ship 'Falcon', owned by Lord Yarborough, first Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, accompanied by other yachts of the Squadron including 'Alarm' (BHC4178, BHC4182), 'Pearl' and 'Waterwitch'.
The back of the shield has a large silver-gilt hanging ring and the trophy has a velvet-lined wooden box bearing the trade label of Rundell, Bridge & Company.
This trophy, the first Queen's Trophy of Queen Victoria's reign, was won by Joseph Weld's 193-ton cutter yacht, 'Alarm', at Cowes on 17 August 1838 (birthday of the Queen's mother, the Duchess of Kent).
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Object Details
| ID: | PLT0257 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Shield |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Benjamin Preston (Rundell, Bridge & Co) |
| Events: | America's Cup |
| Vessels: | Alarm (1830) |
| Date made: | 1837; 1837-1838 1837-38 |
| People: | Queen Victoria |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 60 x 440 mm |