AMERICA’S CUP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18254, 24 November 1933, Page 3

AMERICA’S CUP

BRITISH CHALLENGE DEFENDER IS PLANNED LONDON, Oct. 17. The Royal Yacht Squadron to-day an- ■ nouneed that it had tiled a formal cliallenjjft with the New York Yacht Club ' for the America’s Cup, the famous j yachting trophy which the late Sir Thomas Liptoii tried so long to win lor England. The challenging yacht is Mr. i Tom Sopwith’s Endeavor, now being built at Gosport. Mr. Charles Nicholson, boat designer I and builder, who drew the plans lor two !of the Lipton Shamrocks, Fourth and S Fifth, has designed the Endeavor, j It is understood that the new yacht jis of all steel construction and conj structed along the same lines as the alli steel Valsheda, owned by Mr, W. L. • Stephenson, which made such a fine showing at Cowes last summer. NEW DEFENDER BOSTON, Oct. 18. With receipt of word from London that a challenge has been filed for the j America Cup. plans were speeded to-day i for the construction of a defender by a j group of New England yachtsmen, j Messrs. Gerard B. Lambert and Frede- ; rick IT. Princeton, Boston sportsmen, and Mr. Harold S. Vanderbilt, of Newport, R. 1., successful skipper of the last cup defender, Enterprise, will be | associated in the building of the Ameri- : can craft, the keel of which will ho laid shortly in a Now England yard.