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Herald of the Morning made the fastest passage of the year from New York City to San Francisco, arriving May 16, 1855 100 days, 6 hours, anchor to anchor 99 days, 12 hours, pilot to pilot Best day's run, 340 mi. [1] After this passage, she took a load of guano to Mauritius, arriving Dec. 7 1855, under Captain Otis Baker Jr. [4]
It was the shortest run on the 15,000-mile (24,000 km) San Francisco-to-Boston passage on record. [4] [5] It also beat previous around-Cape-Horn speed records of 84 days and 85 days held by the New York-based Comet and Flying Dutchman respectively. The Boston Post noted that Northern Light carried no cargo during the passage. [6]
Today, there are several major races held regularly along the clipper route. The Volvo Ocean Race is a crewed race with stops which sails the clipper route every four years. Two single-handed races, inspired by Chichester and the Golden Globe race, are the Around Alone , which circumnavigates with stops, and the Vendée Globe , which is non-stop.
Clipper ship sailing card for the Free Trade, printed by Nesbitt & Co., New York, early 1860s. Departures of clipper ships, mostly from New York and Boston to San Francisco, were advertised by clipper-ship sailing cards. These cards, slightly larger than today's postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.
Struck rocks and sank on February 22, 1901, off of San Francisco SS City of Rome: 1881 Scrapped in 1902 – Germany SS City of Tokio: 1874 Wrecked off Tokyo Bay, June 1885 RMS Columbia (1840) 1840 Wrecked on Devil's Limb Reef at Seal Island, Nova Scotia, on July 2, 1843 SS Columbus: 1924 Scuttled by the crew in 1939 to avoid capture by the ...
(Boston, MA) Disappeared in 1865 128 ft (39 m) She was an 1850 clipper barque, who set a record of 109 days from New York to San Francisco during the first Clipper Race around the Horn. Sea Serpent: 1850 United States (Portsmouth, NH) Abandoned in 1891 212 ft (65 m) Stag Hound: 1850 United States (Boston, MA) Burned in 1861 226 ft (69 m)
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