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Flying Fish was a California clipper ship of the extreme type launched in 1851. Her figurehead was a green and gold flying fish. At full sail she could set 8,250 yards of canvas. The ship was wrecked in 1858 while coming out of Fuzhou with a cargo of tea leaves. [2]
Flying Fish, which left New York November 1, narrowly bested John Gilpin, arriving in 92 days, 4 hours. Clark describes the race between the two leaders, Flying Fish and John Gilpin , as follows: The fleet was so large in 1853 that it was not uncommon for two or three ships to be in company at sea, each striving to outsail the others.
Dreadnought was a three-masted medium clipper ship built in 1853 by Currier & Townsend at Newburyport, MA. She was originally intended for the "Racehorse Line" of California clippers, but ended up sailing for the Red Cross Line of New York and Liverpool packets. In 1860 she set a new record for New York to Liverpool of only 9 days, 17 hours.
"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
It earned the nickname “the Ghost Ship of the Pacific.” The ship was in “exceptional” condition after 78 years under the sea, according to the search team. Ocean Infinity
A fish fell out of the sky and smashed the windshield of a car owned by Jeff and Cynthia Levine of Atlantic Highlands. Life in the sea: NJ record lobster caught by Ocean County diver; no one will ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people in one of the state's deadliest maritime disasters, was sentenced on ...
The Atlantic flyingfish (Cheilopogon melanurus) is a flying fish in the family Exocoetidae. The flyingfish fauna is made up of 16 total species, 6 of which belong to the genus Cheilopogon, including C. melanurus. [2] The Atlantic flyingfish is also in the order Beloniformes and class Actinopterygii. [3]