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== Inconsistency regarding yacht Fleur de Lys ==
An apparent inconsistency in newspaper records regarding Stimsons's schooner yacht Fleur-de-Lys:
reported in
Then a year later March 28, 1905
▲Then a year later March 28, 1905 the New York Times reports Stimson’s Fleur-de-Lys as entering the Kaiser’s Cup Race.https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/03/28/101356857.html
But the Boston Globe on February 7 1904 had reported the pilot schooner Fleur-de-Lis as “among the corpses” deteriorating
It would not be feasible to re-float, repair, re-equip, and sail Fleur de Lys from a Boston mud flat to Palermo, Sicily in the three months between between February 1904 and May 1904. As between
Still, this
▲But the Boston Globe on February 7 1904 had reported the pilot schooner Fleur-de-Lis as “among the corpses” deteriorating on a Boston mud flat. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-cemetery/75181433/.
▲As between two New York Times articles reporting a live sailing vessel and one article on a derelict rotting schooner on a mud flat, possibly the Boston Globe may have got the name wrong. Or there were two pilot schooners with the same name.
▲Still, this is an apparent inconsistency that the article needs to address. Possibly solved with research in the New York Yacht Club records on Stimson’s Fleur de Lys specifications. [[User:ElijahBosley|ElijahBosley]] ([[User talk:ElijahBosley|talk]]) 14:20, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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