Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-15
SHAMROCK Is HERE.
Lipton's Cup Challenger Has
Safely Come Across.
Encountered Some Storms, Some
Gains, but Safely Landed.
And She Is the Finest Looking Boat
Yet to Arrive.

New York, June IA. - Safe and
sound, after rather rough passage
from Gourock, Scotland, of 16 days and
% hours, Sir Thomas Lipton's latest
challenger for the Americas cup, the
Shamrock III, is now lying ut anchor
off Tompkinsville, Staten Island, where
she arrived at 1920, this morning, in
company with the steam yacht Erin,
which had tOWed her most of the way
across the Atlantic, and the Sham
rock I, lowed by the British tug
Cruiser. The 1856 men who manned the
yachts and their conveys are all well
and there We're no accidents to mar
the passage.
Between Gourock and Fayal, Azores,
where the steamers stopped for coal,
Gains and squally weather were en-
countered. The Erin and her tow
became separated from the Cruiser and
the Shamrock l before reaching Fayal
but they never lost sight of each other
after leaving there. The weather was
fairly good except on June II, when
the yachts were caught in Il gale from
the southeast and while it blew very
hard and a heavy sea was running, the
| ydCIllS SIiPpCu HtiS iiltiI "'etNi t'iiN
no damage was done.
The tug Charles Z. Matthews, In
charge of II. Hier Davies, met the
yachts at daylight 20 miles east of
Sandy Hook lightship. Pilots Thomas
Conley and Frank Johnson were put on
board the Erin at sea and the Mat
thews lowed the Shamrock III to Quar-
antine the Shamrock l being toWed by
| the Cruiser. The yachts passed Sandy
| Hook lightshp soon after O'Clock, this
| morning. They were saluted by every
| vessel that passed them, all the way to
Quarantine.
The new challenger is a far hand
sOmer craft than either the Shamrock
| or H. She looks not unlike the CO.
lumbia above the water line, and her
| beam seems greater than either OF
| those yachts. She toWs easily, making
| a very little broken water at the bow,
and leaving a clean wake. Her cap
| tain, Robert Wringe, says she behaved
| splendidly under all conditions of
weather during the passage across the
Atlantic. She is rugged as sloop with
a short bowsprit and a topmast over a
| short stout lower mast.
| Following is the log of the Erin for
the passage:
| s. Y. Erin" abstract of voyage.
| Sailed from Gourock p. M, Thursday,
May 2S, 1903. May %, noon, distance
700 miles; May 80, 200 miles; May 81,
2S5 miles. June l, $50 miles; June 2, 284
miles; June 3, arrived at Fayal, Azores,
A. NJ. distance go miles; June 4, sail
ed from Fayal at 4 =. M; June 5, 1874
| miles. June 6, 234 miles; June Z, 23S
miles; June 8, 1913 miles; June 3, 229
miles; June 10, 233 miles; June II, 1913
miles; June ~, 225 miles; June IL, 1876
miles: June A. arrived at Sandy Hook,
6 A. NJ. distance. 1S5 miles. Total dis
lance, 3G44 miles.
At 1870 this morning, whom the Erin was
loo miles east of Sandy Hook, the wireless
telegraph operator on the Erin succeeded
lin raising the Conny Island station. Capt.
Matthews sent the following message to
Ibe cablcd to Sir Thomas Upton:
.'I1lect arrived safely. Sandy Hook. En-
| ucricnccd rough weather during voyage
Shamrocks all right. Wireless working
| 0Signcd Matthews"
The reply to this message was received
ION board the Eric by wireless from the
lConey Island station at S55 A. NJ.
'Dclehtcd receive good news. Convey
ITO all officers and mon my best wishes. |
hope they are all well and fit as ddl"s
| tSigncd) ''Liptun."
As soon as II. Her Davies. the American
representative of Sir Thomas Upton,
reached Quarantine he sent the following
Icablegram to Sir Thomas:
l"Iipton, London:
both Shamrocks arrived safely. Met
lby tug Matthews with Davies. press men