Shamrock IV was a yacht owned by Sir Thomas Lipton and designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson . She was the unsuccessful challenger in the 1920 America's Cup . While the boat was launched in 1914, and soon towed across the Atlantic by Lipton's boat Erin, she was soon dry docked due to World War I . Shamrock IV was known as the 'ugly duckling' due to its scow -like bow .
4-519: The boat was considerably faster than the defender, Resolute , and owed seven minutes under the newly instated Universal rule . While Shamrock IV lost the America's Cup, it was a public sensation. Lipton allowed tours after the last race, and reportedly 35,000 people walked aboard during a three-day period. This article about a specific civilian ship or boat is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Resolute (yacht) Resolute
8-545: The America's Cup course record off Sandy Hook by sailing 30 miles in 3:16:41. However, the outbreak of World War I caused the America's Cup races for 1914 to be postponed. The race was finally held during the 1920 America's Cup . In 1920 the America's Cup was reconvened and Resolute again prevailed in selection races before successfully defending the Cup in July, once more with Adams at
12-415: The helm. Resolute lost the first two matches before recovering to defend the cup 3–2 against Shamrock IV . Robert Wales Emmons, Jr. was the manager of the yacht in 1920. In 1925 Resolute was sold to E. Walter Clark of Philadelphia . Her racing career lasted another ten years, and in 1930 Resolute again participated in the America's cup selection races, albeit as a "trial horse" against which
16-487: Was a yacht designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters to contend the 1914 America's Cup. Resolute was the last Cup defender to be designed by Herreshoff. Resolute was christened by Grace Vanderbilt and launched on April 25, 1914. In the 1914 America's Cup defender selection trials, skippered by Charles Francis Adams III , she beat Vanitie and Defiance . In so doing, she beat
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