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Alexander Laing, Clipper Ship Men (1944) David R. MacGregor, Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775–1875 Naval Institute Press, 1988 ISBN 0-87021-895-6; Oxford English Dictionary (1987) ISBN 0-19-861212-5. Bruce D. Roberts, Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, 2007, Lulu.com. ISBN 978-0-9794697-0-1.
Flying Cloud had one sister ship named Northern Light, and was a second copy of the new design that produced the fastest clipper ships. Flying Fish: 1851 United States (Boston, MA) Wrecked in 1858 [a] Unknown She was launched at East Boston, Massachusetts, for Messrs. Sampson & Tappan, Boston.
Shippers began to look for a ship design that would speed large quantities of boxed, barrelled, or crated cargo to Melbourne or San Francisco. At the beginning of the 1850s, the dominant U.S. fast sailing ship design was the extreme clipper, properly defined as a cargo vessel with a 40-inch-or-more dead rise at half floor. [2]
Great Republic, as originally built in 1853. Designed by naval architect and shipbuilder Donald McKay as a four-deck four-masted medium clipper barque, Great Republic—at 4,555 tons registry [4] —was intended to be the most profitable wooden sailing ship ever to ply the Australian gold rush and southern oceans merchant trade.
Plan and elevation of Sea Witch. Sea Witch was 192 feet in length, had a 43-foot beam, and was of 908 tons burthen. [2] She was designed and built by the shipbuilding firm of Smith & Dimon in New York City as a purpose-built vessel for the speedy movement of high-value freight, such as porcelain and tea, from China to the United States East Coast.
Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. [1] Designed for the China tea trade, she set a speed record on her maiden voyage to Melbourne of 63 days, still the fastest trip under sail. [2]
In 1845 Griffiths was employed for the shipbuilding firm of Smith & Dimon in lower Manhattan and designed the clipper ship Rainbow.Historian Dr. Larrie Ferreiro considered the Rainbow “the first of a line of ‘extreme’ clippers, with a fine, raked bow, high deadrise, and hollow waterlines.” [1] The ship was known for fast passages but reportedly went “missing with all hands” in 1848.
She may have suggested the clipper design in vessels of ship rig. Ann McKim was rather a transitional vessel, which did, however, influence the building of Rainbow in 1845, the first extreme clipper ship. [8] Rainbow 's design was formulated by John W. Griffiths after he, very impressed with the speed of Ann McKim, studied her blueprints. [17]