Evening star., 1901-08-12
SHAMROCK n IN PORT
Cup Challenger Drops Anchor at
Tompkinsviile This Morning.
RECEIVES 4 HEARTY GREETING
Made the Trip II q Days, 9
Hours, As Minutes.
CAUGHT IN A HEAVY GALE

NEW YORK, August 12.-4The new Amer
ica's cup challenger. Shamrock H. lay at
anchor off Sandy Hook lightship last night
and early this morning was towed up the
bay to Tompkinsvile, Staten Island. She
will be taken at once to Erie basin, where
she will be stripped and her racing mast
stepped. Her spars are ready, and there
viii be no delay in getting her into racing
trim. Whether she will go into dry dock to
have her hull scraped before her trials out
side is not yet known. The material Of
which her hull is constructed fouls easily,
but the Shamrock l, whose hull was also
Of manganese bronze, went through her
trials off Sandy Hook without going into
dry dock, and was not docked until a few
days before the cup races began.
The challenger of 1901 received lively
and enthusiastic welcome from every craft
in the harbor as she came up the bay in
tow of the tug Robert Haddon. She had
her first taste of the enthusiasm with which
she was to be greeted when two tugs filled
with newspaper men and the steam pilot
boat New York reached her anchorage near
Sandy Hook Hghtship at daylight. The
shippers of the tugs loosed their whistles
and the New York walled salute with her
siren. The Erin acknowledged the salute
1t was at her anchorage overlooking the
field where she is to give battle in Septem-
ber to the defender of the cup that the
Yachting sharps had their first glimpse of
the new challenger by daylight. The grace
and beauty of the lines of her slender body
were marred by her cumbrpus cruising rig
and the litter and confusioA on her deck as
her crew were preparing to- weigh anchor.
HandsOmer Than sha1nrock 1.
But one glance was sufficient to convince
the experts that Watson had built a much
handsomer boat than the old Shamrock
She looks the fastest boat ever turned out
in British waters. One ofther beauties is
Watson's peculiar tilt of the counter There
Is no fiatness or tumble home along the
topsides, and her great overhang gives her
the appearance of speed She was painted
green Like the Irish knights first challen-
ger, Dut the paint on the sides of her upper
works had been scraped eff in many places
by the seas she had encountered, and these
spots showed the manganese bronze of
which she is constructed.
She raised her anchor and took the tow
line from the Haddon at 3 40 am She few
Sir Thomas private signal, green sham
rock In yellow field. from her masthead,
while her consort, the Erin, carried the
same pennant at her main peak the Amer
lean flag at her fore and the British naval
reserve flag, in which were worked the col
ors of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club,
astern AS she came up the bay the crew
of the Shamrock, in dark blue sweaters and
white trousers and hats. lounged along her
deck, dfsdaining Oilskins to protect them
from the dashes of rain that fell at inter-
vals
Observed by All.
A Porto Rican steamer inward bound
passed the stranger and her consort just
inside the Hook, and there was much dip
ping OF flags and blowing Of whistles.
Every marine glass in the harbor seemed
leVeled at the challenger as she came on
with stream Of signal flags from her yard
pointing her International code name, r.
M. =. b., against the gray and dripping
sky AS she passed Forts Wadsworth and
hamilton at the Narrows Shamrock IL
courteously dipped her ensign three times
aths heaIth of5eer at Quarantine paa Dr. Doty the
Erin In turn and promptly gave each pra-
tlque After leaving quarantine the noise
and din of saluting whistles became louder
Inc staten Island Yacht Club added the
steamed as close as possible to get bet
ter view of the boat upon which British
hopes hsI sa are centered, and tugs and small
abaut ber b.t'ng ,r11t out ha from shore sWarmsd
bottom Off Tompkinsville before the
throngs appeared on hill and pierhead to
study her lines with their glasses. A driv-
the ardor of those who desired an early
glimpse or the new challenger. The people
aboard the steamer Sandy Hook from
Navesink Highlands crowded the rail and
by on her way to New York, cheers that
We're answered with a will by the crew
OF the Shamrock. Shippers and tars
aboard the visitors seemed delighted with
the enthusiastic reception accorded them.
When the newspaper men boarded the
Erin both Captain Sycamore and Captain
Mathews expressed their appreciation OF
the hearty welcome. Captain Hamilton,
navigating officer of the Shamrock, stated
the yacht had been towed about two-thirds
OF the way from the Azores.
Lost Canvas In q Gale.
Prevailing winds from the southeast gave
them fair wind all the way. They got
into the tail end of an easterly gale Au-
gust and carried away two topsail sheets
That was the only mishap of the voyage.
The only ship sighted after leaving the
Azores, where the Shamrock remained
from p.m.. August 2, to $50 pm. the next
day, was the Spartan Prince, bound for
mediterranean port The total length OF
the voyage was 8, 769 mfles and the actual
running time IA days hours and 46 min
utes.
The Shamrock's daily runs from July u,
when she left Gourock,. until her arrival
az SANDY HOOK last night were as follows
l6: 26O, 267. 2s7, 2s4. 27e; August 2 left ST.
2sl. 25s, 251. 2e7. 2Se, al. 35. 241. 11s
Capt Sycamore, who is to have absolute
charge Of the Shamrock II IN the races,
gave it as his opinion that the Columbia is
a better boat than the Constitution.
capt VIM. Mathews, the commander of
the Erin, said: We tear the Columbia
more than we do the Cohstitut1on.'
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OFFICERS ON TvfH SIMMER.