Saleroom
Jul 15, 2022
2 minutes
By Dave Selby
ELDRED’S
Westward gone but not forgotten
The memory of Nathanael Herreshoff’s magnificent 1910 steel schooner Westward is preserved today in a dramatic photograph taken by Beken of Cowes.
cost $118,000, a mighty sum for most, but not for Alexander Cochran, who’d inherited $40 million and subsequently joined the New to European waters where he trounced the Germans, beat the Brits including Tommy Lipton’s latest , then sold her after barely a year of ownership.
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