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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.
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)
Andrew Jackson made seven passages from New York to San Francisco, with an average time of 106 1 ⁄ 3 days. These times compare well with the passages of extreme clippers such as Flying Cloud and Flying Fish, which averaged 105 5 ⁄ 7 days and 103 1 ⁄ 3 days respectively, [1] and the vessel was advertised as "The Fastest Ship in the World."
The Memnon was the first clipper ship to arrive in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, and the only clipper to arrive in San Francisco before 1850.Built in 1848, she made record passages to San Francisco and to China, and sailed in the first clipper race around Cape Horn.
King Philip was a 19th-century clipper ship launched in 1856 and wrecked in 1878. The wreck of this ship is only rarely visible; very infrequently the timbers can be seen protruding from the sands of Ocean Beach, on the Pacific Ocean coast of San Francisco, California.
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.
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 ...
She was one of only two clipper ships in the post-Civil War period (1865–1900) to make a passage from an Atlantic port to San Francisco in less than one hundred days. Seminole arrived at San Francisco from New York on March 10, 1866, in 96 days.
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