A few days after her launch Glory won the Stratford Shoals overnight race before heading south to the palm tree circuit of the Southern Ocean Racing Conference.
Glory was built by Morton Johnson Shipyard in Bay Head N. J., for Philip F. Miller of Greenwich, CT. She was designed and tank-tested by the naval architectural firm, Sparkman and Stephens. Design #1293. Glory is 42’7″ overall, 29’6″ waterline, 11’9 1/2″ beam, and draws 4’1 3/8″ with her hollow bronze centerboard housed. She spreads 883 square feet of sail in the masthead rig. Glory displaces 22,000 pounds of which 7,300 is ballast.
Competing in the Newport to Bermuda race in 1958 she won Class C. That was the year Finisterre won its second overall. Her last notable race was in 1965 when she competed in the Transpac race, from Los Angeles to Honolulu and back for her then-owner Frank Simpson lll.
Agnew Fisher, took this photo of Glory for Motor Boating Magazine 1957
Exert from New York Times 1989:
Agnew Fisher, a photographer who documented the America’s Cup races on film for 20 years, died of cancer Monday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 82 years old.
An avid competitive sailor, Mr. Fisher directed films on the cup races from 1958 to 1978. During World War II, he was an aerial photographer in the United States Army Air Corps and made a documentary on the Berlin airlift in 1948.
