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Three-Quarter Ton class

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ22570194 ↗
Source-derived summary

Three-Quarter Ton class was an offshore sailing class of the International Offshore Rule racing the Three-Quarter Ton Cup between 1974 and 1994; boats rated below 24,5.

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“Three-Quarter Ton class” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Three-Quarter, class and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Three-Quarter, class and Open-knowledge.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22570194. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Three-Quarter Ton class” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.