SHAMROCK V.

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 9

SHAMROCK V.

UPTON’S NEW YACHT WINS RACE IN ENGLAND AMERICA CUP CHALLENGE British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht’Shamrock V. f which has been specially built to challenge the holder of the America’s Cup, created ail excellent first impression yesterday when she won a race over a course of 40 miles at Harwich. The races for the America’s Cup are to start on September 13 from a point nine miles south-east of Brenfon lightship, off Long Island, and are, if possible, to be continued daily until one of the competing yachts has Won four races out of seven. The yacht which does that will be declared the winner. The first race will be 15 miles to windward and back, or to leeward and back if a windward course is not possible; the next will be sailed over a triangular course with legs of nine miles each. Subsequent races will be to windward —or leeward —and triangular alternately. Sir Thomas Lipton is to take to America for the cup races his new steam yacht Erin. The international trophy, which Sir Thomas Lipton is again to try to win for Britain, was originally a cup. given by the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on August 22, 1851, and won by the American yacht America. The cup was afterwards given to the New York Yacht Club by the owner of the America as a challenge trophy and named the “America’s Cup.”