Deseret Evening News | 1901-03-25 | Page 2 | Launching of Shamrock

LAUNCHING O OF OJ SHAMROCK ROCK Onto Into of ul ol ny line Has Dell lell Definitely mutely Fixed for or April M 29 Glasgow March 24 Sir Thomas Lip Up Lipon ton Ion on Was at al Dunbarton yesterday mak mal making lag ing arrangements to launch Shamrock II 11 and the ceremony has been definite definitely ly Iy fixed for tur April Iril 20 The Tho Marchioness of will christen the yacht The attempt attempts last week lIek to o the tIme channel deep enough to float time the challenger taIled failed owing to the tho shifty nature of ot the bottom For a n time It looked hooked ax nM If It this might give rise to se lSe serious rious difficulties because time the long tin and end heavy hely ballast demand twenty feet of ot water which It Is IN impossible to get In this Ihl Mr fr Watson devised in n 11 plan This involves n a hug hugn water wat l tight box of ot sufficient buoyancy to carry rr the time Whole hole weight of ot the time yacht The Time box Is being built around her hH under body In such a 11 rash fash fashion ash ashton I ion ton that thai the tho whole hol of ot the hollow be between between tween the body of ot the tho yacht anti time tha thoIn timen fn In n will be filled In It Is I calculated that thIs will Mont heat lx feet teet above time the nor 1101 normal mat mal water line of the yacht and that when hell deep water lIter Is reached It can be bo knocked away One of o the Iho use uie of the eon con contrivance will be that tIme till under body i od will 11 bo he hidden a All aim the time goes down the th ways and U it will be to tot tott tott I t tt t a complete photograph of or her