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拍品专文
The Shamrock V J-Class yacht was designed by Charles E. Nicholson and built by Camper & Nicholson in 1930 for Sir Thomas Lipton as an Americas Cup Race challenger, built to the American Universal rule, to race against Endeavour, launched on April 14th, 1930. During Shamrock Vs first season, she won fifteen races and came in second in four, an outstanding record by all measures. Before crossing the Atlantic, she had been raced and tested in races totalling nearly 720 miles, far more than any of her potential adversaries. No previous challenger had been so well tuned, none so highly praised.
Nevertheless, Shamrock V did not defeat the defender Endeavour in tn 1930 Americas cup. In 1974 a million pound refit was started on Quadrifoglio, (which was what Shamrock V was called at the time) at her original builders, Camper & Nicholson. However, she was not rerigged as a J-Class yacht, but was refitted as an ideal cruising yacht for the Mediterranean, where her Italian owner based her after her relaunch in 1980. She is now called by her original name, Shamrock V and has the most up to date aids to seamanship including satellite navigational equipment and her accomodation has been thoroughly modernised through the silver plated door furniture and birds eye maple panelling has been retained in the main saloon. In the spring of 1986 she was purchased by the Museum of yachting at Newport, Rhode Island, with the help of a grant from the Lipton Tea Company and in 1988 a private grant enabled her to be restored to her original racing trim.
Nevertheless, Shamrock V did not defeat the defender Endeavour in tn 1930 Americas cup. In 1974 a million pound refit was started on Quadrifoglio, (which was what Shamrock V was called at the time) at her original builders, Camper & Nicholson. However, she was not rerigged as a J-Class yacht, but was refitted as an ideal cruising yacht for the Mediterranean, where her Italian owner based her after her relaunch in 1980. She is now called by her original name, Shamrock V and has the most up to date aids to seamanship including satellite navigational equipment and her accomodation has been thoroughly modernised through the silver plated door furniture and birds eye maple panelling has been retained in the main saloon. In the spring of 1986 she was purchased by the Museum of yachting at Newport, Rhode Island, with the help of a grant from the Lipton Tea Company and in 1988 a private grant enabled her to be restored to her original racing trim.