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List Of Clipper Ships
The period of clipper ships lasted from the early 1840s to the early 1890s, and over time features such as the Hull (watercraft), hull evolved from wooden to composite ship, composite. At the 'crest of the clipper wave' year of 1852, there were 200 clippers rounding Cape Horn. The age of clippers ended when they were phased out in favor of more modern Iron-hulled sailing ships, which eventually gave way to steamships. In the late 20th century, ships based on the 19th century designs of historical ships began to be built. These are used today as training ships and to promote tourism rather than for cargo or trade. The following entries are organized by their year of launch and alphabetically within each year. List criteria Among other characteristics which define a clipper is that they were usually ships in the strictest sense of the word. That is, they were three-masted vessels (though rarely four-masted) and were fully square-rigged on all masts. Speedy contemporary vessels wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Boston
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Game Cock (clipper)
The ''Game Cock'' was a clipper ship known for its long sailing life of 29 years and 2 months. Its principal route was the New York to San Francisco run. Construction A game cock with neck extended served as the ship's figurehead. ''Game Cock'' was considered either a medium or extreme clipper, Its materials were similar to the ''Surprise''. It was built by S. Hall of East Boston, after being commissioned by Captain Daniel C. Bacon, a retired sailor and successful merchant. Voyages ''Game Cock'' sailed between New York City and San Francisco. The ship put in for repairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1851, and made voyages to Bombay in 1851, and Batavia in 1859. In the mid 1860s the ship was bought by Robert L. Taylor and others of New York. The ship was condemned in 1880, at the Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A List of common misconceptions#Geography, common misconcepti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ticonderoga (clipper)
''Ticonderoga'' was a , 4-masted clipper ship displacing 1,089 tons, launched in 1849 and wrecked in 1872. History ''Ticonderoga'' was launched in 1849 at Williamsburg, New York (United States). She was infamous for her "fever ship" voyage in 1852 from Liverpool (England) to Port Phillip, Victoria (Australia) carrying 795 passengers, arriving on 3 November 1852. It was a double-decker ship, overcrowded, and with more than her recommended load of 630. Many passengers were small children, as the restrictions on the number of children per family had been lifted. Most came from the Highlands of Scotland under the auspices of the Highland and Island Emigration Society, but there were other families from Somerset on board. The ship was not designed well for passenger carrying: sanitary provisions were totally inadequate, and the surgeons were soon overwhelmed, and the senior surgeon, Dr Sanger, caught typhus leaving the junior surgeon on his first voyage to deal with hundr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MEMNON (Ship) (c112-02-03)
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Memnon (clipper)
The ''Memnon'' was the first clipper, clipper ship to arrive in San Francisco after the California Gold Rush, Gold Rush, and the only clipper to arrive in San Francisco before 1850. Built in 1848, she made record passages to San Francisco and to China, and sailed in the first clipper race around Cape Horn. Record passage to San Francisco "The only clipper ship to make the voyage to San Francisco prior to 1850 was the ''Memnon'', under Captain George Gordon, which arrived there July 28, 1849 after a record passage of one hundred and twenty days from New York." Cutler lists this passage as 122 days, leaving New York April 11, 1849 under Capt. J.R. Gordon, and arriving in San Francisco on August 28, 1849. "Era of the Clipper Ships" lists the captain's name as Joseph R. Gordon, and puts the voyage at 123 days, noting a mutiny en route: "Gordon had it in his mind to set the record with this voyage around the Horn and was driving his new crew hard, and soon had a mutiny with " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sea Witch (clipper)
''Sea Witch'' was an American clipper ship designed by naval architect John W. Griffiths for the China trading firm of Howland & Aspinwall. She was launched at Smith & Dimon in Manhattan on December 8, 1846. Model for American clipper ship design "In 1845, John Willis Griffiths built the fast ship ''Rainbow'' and followed it in the next year with the even faster ''Sea Witch''. Both vessels would have tremendous impact on merchant hull design.Somerville, Col. Duncan S. ''The Aspinwall Empire,'' pp. 22-23, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., Mystic, Connecticut, 1983. . ''Sea Witch'', in fact, had more influence on the configuration of fast vessels than any other ship built in the United States. Vessels built in general accordance with the ''Sea Witch'' model were known as clippers, a term already well entrenched in the language of fast vessels." Construction ''Sea Witch'' was 192 feet in length, had a 43-foot beam, and was of 908 tons burthen. She was designed and built by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoni Lockwood III
Benoni Lockwood III (1805–1851) was an American ship captain who set an ocean-crossing speed record during the era of the clipper A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century. Clippers were generally narrow for their len ... ships. Biography Benoni Lockwood III was the son of sea captain and engineer Benoni Lockwood II (1777-1852) and Phebe Greene of Rhode Island and the brother of engineer Amos D. Lockwood. He married Amelia Cooley, with whom he had a son, Benoni Lockwood IV. Their granddaughter Florence Bayard Lockwood married the architect Christopher Grant La Farge and was the mother of writer Christopher La Farge. Lockwood was a ship captain engaged in the East India trade. In 1845, he sailed the 573-ton ''Tartar'', built in Philadelphia, from Holyhead, Wales, to Bombay, India, in a then-record time of 77 days (Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartar (clipper)
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