Sailboats. Shamrock

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Cutters 1893-1937

Shamrock

Designer : William Fife III
Builder : J. Thorneycroft & Co.
Launched : 26 June 1899
Owner(s) : Sir Thomas Lipton
Racing career
Skippers : Captain Archibald "Archie" Hogarth
America's Cup : 1899
Specifications
Displacement : 156.9 metric tonnes
Length :
38.86 m (127.5 ft) (LOA)
25.12 m (82.4 ft) (LWL)
Beam : 7.46 m (24.5 ft)
Draft : 6.15 m (20.2 ft)
Sail area : 1,214.30 m2 (13,070.6 sq ft)

Shamrock featured a composite build, with manganese-bronze bottom and aluminium topside clinkerbuilt over a steel frame and a pine decking

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