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Show II LUCK FOLLOWS sjr jm Lira His Famous Yacht Loses Topmast Top-mast While King Is on Board. By Associated Press. COWES, Isle of Wight, Aug. 6. Thomas Lipton's yncht. Shamrock, on which is King Alfonso of Spain, a guest of the owner, lost its topmast today, while a stiff breeze was blowing and a heavy rain falling. No one was injured. III luck for the second time follows Sir Thomas Lipton in entertaining royal guests on his racing yachts, King Edward Ed-ward having been a guest on Shamrock II. when the challenger for the America's Ameri-ca's cup was dismasted and wrecked J)Jljd(len S(liw11 on tI,e Solent, May King Edward hnd a miraculous escape es-cape from injury when the topmast and then the heavy steel mast gave way the wreckage coming down all over the deck. A heavy block fell between Ladv Londonderry and Mrs. G-. Jamieson and a wiro rope struck tho owner on tho head, momentarily stunning him King Edward, who had started to eo below, was hair in and half out of the companionway (ind whon the ownor and tho prew of the yacht recovered from thoir consternation his maiestv was seen clamoring over tho wrack-ago, wrack-ago, trying, to ascertain whether anv one was injured. J |