The American Built Clipper Ship
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Author | : William L. Crothers |
Publisher | : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780071358231 |
The American-Built Clipper Ship presents in detail 152 clippers that comprise the culmination of the shipbuilder's art. Every facet of clipper-ship design and construction is covered, from felling timber to details on interior finish work. Detailed drawings illustrate this work.
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ISBN | : 9780701450168 |
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Author | : Glenn A. Knoblock |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1476602840 |
This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the Flying Cloud and Challenge discussed in detail, but they are also put in context with the times in which they operated. Their builders in East Coast states from Maine to Florida are discussed in detail, as are the men, and a woman in one instance, who commanded and manned these ships. The book documents the roles that owners and shipping agents played, what kinds of cargo the ships carried worldwide and the unusual trades in which they participated.
Author | : Octavius Thorndike Howe |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
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Author | : Carl C. Cutler |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : William L. Crothers |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2013-06-07 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786470062 |
Up and down the Eastern seaboard during the 1850s, American shipyards constructed numerous large wooden merchant sailing vessels that formed the backbone of the commercial shipping industry. This comprehensive volume appraises in minute detail the construction of these ships, outlining basic design criteria and enumerating and examining every plank and piece of timber involved in the process, including the keel, frames, hull and deck planking, stanchions, knees, deck houses, bulworks, railings, interior structures and arrangements. More than 150 illustrations illuminate the size, shape, location and pertinent specifics of each item. Complete with a glossary of contemporary industry terms, this work represents the definitive study of the mid-nineteenth century's great American-built square rigged ships.
Author | : Arthur H. Clark |
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Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Hawthorne Daniel |
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Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
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Author | : Arthur Hamilton Clark |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781230449081 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...and famous Typhoon, a ship more than double her size. It should, however, be remembered with regard to the Sea Witch, that she was at that time over five years old, and had led a pretty wild life under Waterman, while she had known no peace with Frazer in command, and had been strained and weakened by hard driving. Moreover, a wooden ship, after five or six years, begins to lose her speed through absorbing water, and becomes sluggish in light airs. In her prime and at her best with Waterman in command, the Sea Witch was probably the fastest sailing-ship of her inches ever built. The California clippers were, of course, racing all the time, against each other and against the record, aDd the strain upon their captains in driving their ships against competitors whose relative positions were unknown, was terrific. It became a confirmed habit with them to keep their ships going night and day in all weathers and at their utmost speed. In order to appreciate what a passage of 110 days or less from an Atlantic port to San Francisco really means, we must take a few of the long passages of 1851, made by ships that were not clippers: Arthur, from New York, 200 days; Austerlitz, Boston, 185 days; Barrington, Boston, 180 days; Bengal, Philadelphia, 185 days; Capitol, Boston, 300 days; Cornwallis, New York, 204 days; Franconia, Boston, 180 days; Henry Allen, New York, 225 days; Inconium, Baltimore, 190 days. The logs of these vessels tell of long, weary days and nights of exasperating calms, and dreary, heartbreaking weeks of battle with tempests off Cape Horn. Some of the vessels built in 1851 did not take part in the races of that year, as they were not launched until too late; and did not arrive at San Francisco before 1852. Those among them which...