SHAMROCK IV
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- Designer: Charles E. Nicholson
- Builder: Camper & Nicholsons, Gosport, England
- Sailmaker: Ratsey, Cowes.
- Year of building: 1913-1914
- Launched: May 26, 1914
- Owner: Sir Thomas Lipton
- 1932 On Lipton's request, Shamrock IV is broken up
- Construction: Composite type, frames made in 'navaltum' Steel alternated with Mahogany frames
- Length overall (LOA): 33.63m
- Length waterline (LWL) 22.86 m
- Beam: 6.35m
- Draft: 4.16m
- Displacement: 108.3 tonnes
- Sail area: 971.70m2
- Mast: 32m
- Boom: 26.82m
- Bowsprit: 4.57m
- Topmast: 15.03m
