. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Extreme Clipper Sunny South, built at Williamsburg, New York, in 1854. She became the slaver Emanuela. Taken off the half-model in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. particularly in the America. The clipper was rela- tively small, some 700 tons, and represented perhaps the most extreme design of all the American clipper ships built in the 1840's and 1850's. The vessel was marked by a very long and extremely fine entrance and a fine run, long for a ship-rigged vessel. She also had much dead rise amidships and was beaut
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Extreme Clipper Sunny South, built at Williamsburg, New York, in 1854. She became the slaver Emanuela. Taken off the half-model in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. particularly in the America. The clipper was rela- tively small, some 700 tons, and represented perhaps the most extreme design of all the American clipper ships built in the 1840's and 1850's. The vessel was marked by a very long and extremely fine entrance and a fine run, long for a ship-rigged vessel. She also had much dead rise amidships and was beautiful and yachtlike. Her figurehead was a gilded sea serpent carried the length of her curved trails, which were much like those of the yacht America, and the head was built up in the same manner as well. Like many of the China clippers and the coastal packets running into the Gulf of Mexico, the Sunny South was armed to repel pirates. It is worthy of comment that this beautiful vessel had the reputation of being extremely fast when in company of other ships, yet she made no record passages and she was not a financial success. She was eventually sold in 1858-59 to Havana where, under the name Emanuela, she became known as the fastest slaver out of that port. On Aug. 10, 1860, the Emanuela, fl>'ing the Chilean flag, was captured in the Mozambique Channel by H. M. steamship Brisk, when the wind failed the clipper. When taken, the Emanuela had 850 slaves aboard. Unlike many slavers taken by the Royal Navy, the Emanuela was not immediately destroyed; she appears to have been employed as a storeship for a few years at the Cape of Good Hope, after which she is supposed to have been broken up or burned. The Sunny South was one of the few ships that actually had the feature that clipper ships were popularly supposed to have—a long, sharp, and hollow load line at the bow. She appears to have been the only American clipper ship that had her forefoot much cut away and had curvature fo
Size: 2966px × 843px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorun, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience
