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In 1875 she set the record of 35 days for a passage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. According to McKay, [ 1 ] until 1885 under Captain McLaughlin Glory carried general cargo from New York to San Francisco and wheat from there to Britain, and was nearly wrecked in a storm when arriving in Britain in 1880.
White Swallow left New York in 1865 under Captain Elijah E. Knowles in "rum shape with rag-tag rigging"—in poor condition. [2]On February 2, 1866, the New York Times reported: "The crew of the clipper-ship White Swallow, just arrived from New-York, have been arrested for mutiny while off the coast of South America."
United States Navy torpedo boat USS DeLong (TB-28) under construction in the George Lawley & Son shipyard, Boston, 1900. George Lawley & Son was a shipbuilding firm operating in Massachusetts from 1866 to 1945.
After Knowles threatened to bombard the town, the British governor of Boston, William Shirley, persuaded him to release the Bostonians in exchange for the hostages. The Knowles Riot was the largest impressment riot in North America, and the most serious uprising by the American colonists in Colonial America prior to the Stamp Act protests of ...
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The Boston pilot boat Gracie was built by Edward A. Costigan in 1869. She was listed in the Record of American and Foreign Shipping from 1881 to 1898. Her ship master was Captain Abel F. Hayden; her owner was C. A. Hayden; built in 1869 at Charlestown, Massachusetts; and her hailing port was the Port of Boston.
Donald McKay was launched on Donald McKay's shipyard in East Boston, USA, in January 1855.Newspapers reported that she had "all the airy beauty of a clipper combined with the stately outline of a ship of war and, though not sharp, yet her great length, buoyancy, and stability, indicate[d] that she [would] sail very fast, and be an excellent sea boat". [2]
According to "The Ship That Missed the Tea Party," a fascinating article on the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum website, the William, one of the four tea ships bound for Boston, was thrown off ...