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Hornet had a two-day head start on Flying Cloud in their famous 1853 race. She left New York City for San Francisco , California on April 26, 1853, with Flying Cloud departing two days later. After the roughly 15,000- nautical mile (27,780-km) voyage around Cape Horn , both ships arrived in San Francisco harbor 106 days later at almost the same ...
List of clipper ships. Great Republic (1853), the largest clipper ever built. The period of clipper ships lasted from the early 1840s to the early 1890s, and over time features such as the hull evolved from wooden to composite. At the 'crest of the clipper wave' year of 1852, there were 200 clippers rounding Cape Horn. [1]
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853 ...
Sovereign of the Seas set the record for world's fastest sailing ship in 1854. Hornet – an American clipper ship of the 1850s. The first ships to which the term "clipper" seems to have been applied were the Baltimore clippers, developed in the Chesapeake Bay before the American Revolution, and reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815.
Clipper ship N.B. Palmer, built by Westervelt & MacKey in 1851. Westervelt also built clippers, for example Contest (1852), [21] Hornet (1851), [22] N.B. Palmer (1851), Kathay (1853), [23] and Sweepstakes. Clipper bows were distinctively narrow and heavily raked forward, allowing them to rapidly clip through the waves.
Clipper route. The clipper route, followed by ships sailing between Europe and Australia or New Zealand. In the Age of Sail, the Brouwer Route reduced the time of a voyage from The Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies from almost 12 months to about six months. The clipper route was derived from the Brouwer Route and was sailed by clipper ships ...
Stag Hound was launched on December 7, 1850, in East Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by shipbuilder Donald McKay for the California trade, she was briefly the largest merchant ship in the world. She was in active service from 1851 until her total loss in 1861. Stag Hound was to be the only true extreme clipper built by Donald McKay.
Ship Designer. Known for. Flying Cloud. Spouse (s) Albenia Boole (married 1833–1848, until her death) and Mary Cressy Litchfield (m.1850) Donald McKay (September 4, 1810 – September 20, 1880) was a Nova Scotian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships, famed for his record-setting extreme clippers .