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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.
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.
The ship set a record for the New York-to-San Francisco run around Cape Horn in 1851 (despite losing a portion of a mast en route), and improved on its own mark in 1853, setting a record for ships under sail that lasted for over 100 years. The Flying Cloud, like many of the line's ships, had individual ownership. Moses H. Grinnell and Robert ...
1850 Stag Hound, extreme clipper, 1534 tons OM – first large clipper ship built by Donald McKay; 1851 Flying Cloud, extreme clipper, 1782 tons OM; 1851 Staffordshire, extreme clipper, 1817 tons OM. She was launched at East Boston, Massachusetts, for Enoch Train & Co. She wrecked off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, in 1853. 1851 North America ...
[12] [page needed] The Flying Cloud was a clipper ship built in 1851 that established the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco within weeks of her launching, then broke her own records three years later, which stood at 89 days 8 hours until 1989.
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When the California "Gold Rush" caused a large increase in traffic to that state, Grinnell & Minturn established a shipping line to serve the market, and bought the Flying Cloud for that line; Robert Minturn actually owned a portion of the ship in his personal capacity. The success of Grinnell & Minturn made Robert Minturn a wealthy man, and ...
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