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On May 20, 1929, in the rooms of the Broad Street Club, the America's Cup Committee of the N.Y.Y.C. had met to discuss a challenge recently received from the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, acting on behalf of Sir Thomas J. Lipton for a series of races to be held in September, 1930, for The America's Cup. Sixteen years had passed since the receipt of the last challenge, nine since the last series of races, postponed for six years on account of the Great War.
“Shamrock” was designed by William Fife (III) in 1908 as a potential challenger for the America’s Cup. The Americans refused the challenge but Lipton asked Fife to continue building (the vessel being built at Denny's).
In the last contest of 1903, Reliance marked the extreme limit that had been achieved in the development of the racing machine, and there had been already a swing in the other direction toward a saner and more healthy type of yacht.
First J-Class yacht to be commissioned and built in the UK
Towards the end of 1929, Lipton issued his fifth and final challenge for the Cup (he was busy planning his sixth when he died). In the negotiations that followed as they always do when someone lays a challenge, Lipton agreed to build his yacht to the American Universal Rule, and that the yacht would be of the J Class.
Gallery "Sir Thomas Lipton"Shamrock came to this country under reduced cutter rig, convoyed by the steam-yacht Erin. Permission was granted by the New York Yacht Club to tow Shamrock in calm weather, and under tow most of the way she made the passage from Fairlee, which was left August 3d, to Sandy Hook, via the Azores, in fourteen days twenty hours, the distance being three thousand four hundred miles.
Sir Thomas J. Lipton's interest in sailing began at the age of fourteen when he talked his parents into letting him sail from his native Scotland to New York.
Five years later, he returned to Scotland with the equivalent of $500 and a lot of ideas on how to expand his family grocery store. Within a few years, he had 500 shops all over Great Britain and was well on his way to accumulating ...
James Bartholomew is a marine painter of great authority, skill and strength. Born in Portsmouth in 1962 he showed a fascination with painting from an early age and felt destined to choose a profession linked with the sea. Following his initial education on the Isle of Wight, he served seven years with the Royal Navy and subsequently the Royal Marines.
I live in a small village in Holland in the neighborhood of Rotterdam. I was already fascinated by everything about sailing. As the son of a tugboat captain I spend from my 5th year all my spare time on the water. I endlessly made drawings of boats on newspapers and pieces of paper. The foundation for all my marine art is ever based on those early experiences.
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