The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-18
AGAIN A SHAMROCK
IS LAUNCHED By Upton TO TRY
FOR THE CUP.
SHE IS BOLD IN HER DESIGN
ONLY QUESTION Is AS TO HER SEA.
WORTHINESS.

"With Just a Little Slice of Luck -
Sir Thomas Upton Said at the
Launching, 1.-THE Battered Old
Mug VIII Find IA Resting Place
on This side of the Water''-Queer
Lines on which Shamrock III Is
authorizations from Her Build.
Will She Behave Well.
Glasgow, March 1.-THE Shamrock
III was launched to-day under the
most successful conditions. Lady
shaftesbury, wife of the commodore
of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, christ
ened the yacht in the presence of a
number of distinguished guests Sham
rocks and hopefulness were much in
evidence. Sir Thomas Upton divided
1000 punches of the former in honor of
ST. Patrick and the new boat and
voiced the general sentiment of hope
fulness by saying:
with just a, little slice of luck the
battered old mug will find a resting
place on this side of the water"
At lis D. m. Lady Shaftesbury broke
the bottle. saying;
II christen you Shamrock; may God
bless you and may you bring back the
cup
Then, amid loud cheers, the pontoons
on which Shamrock III was resting
slid easily into the water.
In a speech after the luncheon Sir
Thomas Upton said the Americas cup
lNa hnt11oSipk Hprp thew
had learned lessons from the past and
they were never more confident. They
had fifty years experience with Amer
lean yachts and yachtsmen and none
would cheer a Shamrock victory more
heartily than the Americans.
The lord provost expressed the wish
that some diplomatic Pierpont Morgan
would organize a vast international
combine, relegate the fighting naVies
of the world to the scrap heap and re-
place them with Shamrocks, as a
means of settling differences"
What Her Hull shows.
An examination of Shamrock III,
as the yacht was revealed in the
launching shed, confirmed the previous
dispatches of the Associated Press on
the subject and showed that Fife had
struck out boldly on entirely novel
lines, instead of trying to tinker or
improve on either of the previous Lip
ton challengers. Like her predecessors,
however the Shamrock III is built
close up to the ninetyfoot water Inc
limit Her length over all is 14O feet.
The most striking feature of the chal-
lenger, is her extremely short fin. 1t
is lust 20 feet long. Her draught is
10 feet, and the fin is almost level
along the bottom.
The lead in the hull is drawn we'll
down to the fin, suggesting the deep
body typical of the British cutter,
rather than the extreme f1at-Iloored
TYNE. adapted from the American CEN
terboard yachts, and used in all the
recent challengers.
she Has wheel.
American wheel steering for the first
time replaces the British tirler, and the
lesson learned with the Shamrock II
through her pounding in head seas has
led to a longer and finer drawn bow
giving the challenger the appearance
of being a boat capable of negotiating
comfortably any moderate sea. With
lesser draft and not so falt-f1oored as
the previous Shamrocks, the challenger
will not have so much stability SC
Fife has either gone in for light
weather boat, or he has cut down her
sail area There are daring novel fea-
lures in the design, the effect of which
cannot be accurately gagged except by
actual trial. They suggest the posi-
bility of difficulty in getting the new
boat to trim, steer and carry her can
vas. If, however, she accomplishes
these objects well, she will prove to
be far away the most formidable cha1-
lenger ever sent out.