THE SHAMROCK III.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 166, 15 July 1903, Page 4

THE SHAMROCK 111.

(Per 'Frisco Mail.) San Fkancisco, June 25.

New York, June M.—Safeand sound after a rough passage from Gourock, Scotland, Sir Thomas Lipton's latest challenger for America's Cup, Shamrock 111, is now lying at anchor off Thompkiusville, where she arrived today with the steam yacht Erin, which towed her most of the way across the Atlantic, and with the Shamrock 1., towed by a British tug cruiser.

The new challenger is far handsomer than the Shamrock I. or the Shamrock 11. She looks not unlike the Columbia above water-line, and her beam seems greater than either of those yachts She tows easily, making very little broken water at the bow, and leaving a clean wake. Her captain, Robert Wringe, says she behaved splendidly under all conditions of weather during tho passage across the Atlantic. She is rigged as a sloop, with bare bow sprit and topmast over a stout lower mast. The Shamrock I. has the same rig, with the addition of a jigger mast aft. The latter steers with a tiller and tho former with a small wheel.