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Shamrock was designed by third-generation Scottish boatbuilder, William Fife III, and built in 1898 by J. Thorneycroft & Co., at Church Wharf, Chiswick, for owner Sir Thomas Lipton of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club (and also of Lipton Tea fame). [1]
Solar barques were the vessels used by the sun god Ra in ancient Egyptian mythology.During the day, Ra was said to use a vessel called the Mandjet (Ancient Egyptian: mꜥnḏt) or the Boat of Millions of Years (Ancient Egyptian: wjꜣ-n-ḥḥw), and the vessel he used during the night was known as the Mesektet (Ancient Egyptian: msktt).
Shamrock V was then sold to Sopwith's aviation friend, and fellow yachtsman, Sir Richard Fairey of Fairey Aviation [3] who continued to incorporate aerodynamic and hydrodynamic modifications. These included a new mast and mainsail fitted before the 1934 season, in which she competed simply as Shamrock . [ 7 ]
The Fife-designed challenger Shamrock I (1899) lost to Columbia (Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, 1899) and Shamrock III (1903) lost to Reliance. After the establishment of the first International Rule in 1906, Fife became a prolific designer of metre boats, designing and building several successful 15-Metre and 19-Metre yachts in the years leading ...
Shamrock IV was a yacht owned by Sir Thomas Lipton and designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson.She was the unsuccessful challenger in the 1920 America's Cup. [1] While the boat was launched in 1914, and soon towed across the Atlantic by Lipton's boat Erin, she was soon dry docked due to World War I.
The interior of the cathedral church at Clonmacnoise. The airship of Clonmacnoise is the subject of a historical anecdote related in numerous medieval sources. Though the original report, in the Irish annals, simply mentioned an apparition of ships with their crews in the sky over Ireland in the 740s, later accounts through the Middle Ages progressively expanded on this with picturesque details.
The Oreo Shamrock McFlurry debuted in 2020 as a celebration of the Shamrock Shake's 50th anniversary. The seasonal dessert is made with vanilla soft-service ice cream, artificially flavored mint ...
USS Shamrock was a large (974 ton) seaworthy steamer with powerful guns, acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.