Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA 25 of much festivity. A large party accompanied her to SalemHarbor, and a poem was read, one stanza of which ran:— They say a man came down to-dayTo carry the Witch of the Wave the people think he oughtnt oughterJust because hes been and bought her. She subsequently came into the possession of Glidden & Will-iams. At first she was captained by Matthew Hunt, and later. Lengtli, ?220 WITCH OF THE WAVE Tonnage, U98 by Captain Joseph H. Millet, of Salem. The London Times ofApril
Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA 25 of much festivity. A large party accompanied her to SalemHarbor, and a poem was read, one stanza of which ran:— They say a man came down to-dayTo carry the Witch of the Wave the people think he oughtnt oughterJust because hes been and bought her. She subsequently came into the possession of Glidden & Will-iams. At first she was captained by Matthew Hunt, and later. Lengtli, ?220 WITCH OF THE WAVE Tonnage, U98 by Captain Joseph H. Millet, of Salem. The London Times ofApril 16, 1852, printed a very laudatory article, in which it wassaid that the Witch of the Wave brought one of the mostvaluable cargoes of tea that had ever entered England, andthat she was built at Salem near the Port of New York. In1853 she beat the Raven, the Comet, and the TradeWind in a run to San Francisco. On her trip home she went 26 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA from Calcutta to Boston in 81 days, which was then a was sold in 1856 at Amsterdam. The Radiant in ISo^ came off the ways of Paul Curtis atEast Boston, and the John Land was built in 1853 by BriggsBrothers of South Boston. Both ships were owned by Baker& Morrill. The Radiant was wrecked in 1871 on CrocodileReef, while on a voyage from Singapore to Boston, and was John Land in 1864 foundered at sea, all hands being saved.
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