Word: shamrocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...challenger: Shamrock V, owned by Sir Thomas Lipton and sailed by his professional captain, Edward Hearn...
...board Vincent Astor's big Nourmahal, the America's Cup Committee ate and drank a good dinner, then sat down to decide the business once and for all. They picked Enterprise, skippered by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, to defend the cup against Shamrock V. It was the decision everyone had expected, but they had not expected it so soon. After beating Weetamoe in light airs, Enterprise established herself by beating her again next day in the second of the final official trials, in a high sea and a racing wind. Yankee, racing Whirlwind, made better time than Enterprise that...
Died. Major Michael A. ("Dynamite Mike") Kelly, War Commander of the 3rd (Shamrock) Battalion of the 165th Regiment, holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross; by his own hand, accidentally, while cleaning his service pistol; in Manhattan...
Trip. Passengers on liners bound down the Solent from Southampton caught a glimpse last week of an ugly little sailboat with a short mast, rigged as a ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran...
...races continued while committeemen argued about the boats, not at all sure yet which they would pick to race Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on Sept...