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Unfortunate challenger in America's Cup 1920In selecting a designer for his fourth attempt to capture the Cup, Sir Thomas Lipton has gone to C. E. Nicholson, probably the foremost, or perhaps more correctly, most successful, designer of racing yachts in England, though he has had no experience in an America's Cup race.
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Nicholson first drawing for the America's CupIn selecting a designer for his fourth attempt to capture the Cup, Sir Thomas Lipton has gone to C. E. Nicholson, probably the foremost, or perhaps more correctly, most successful, designer of racing yachts in England, though he has had no experience in an America's Cup race.
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Gallery "Sir Thomas Lipton"The Shamrock IV was the first of the yachts designed and built for Lipton by Charles E. Nicholson. It was an unconventional looking vessel and was nicknamed the "ugly duckling".
The Yachting World's description:
"Her greatest beam is forward of the mast which gives her a very exagerated "cod head" and the extreme bluffness detracts from her looks...
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Gallery "Sir Thomas Lipton"From July 8, Shamrock IV is dismantled for her voyage across the Atlantic and on 18 July 1914, under the command of Captain Turner, left Portsmouth for the U.S.A. under tow by Lipton's steam yacht, Erin. She arrived Azores on July 28, having taken seven days and three hours from Falmouth. Lipton's plans were altered on August 7, when Colonel Neil, in charge of Erin, received a message announcing the start of hostilities between Germany and England.
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Gallery "Sir Thomas Lipton"On April 22, Captain Turner and twenty-three members of the crew of the yacht Shamrock IV. will sail for New York on board the steamer Lapland.
On June 2, SHAMROCK has had her first trial spin. She had two and a half hours of it in very light to fair breezes on the Sound. Designer and skipper are well pleased with impressive speed of the Yacht.
