The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews 1843-1869 . ast brisk breezes and clear. 8th, 313 miles;south-southwest to south fresh breezes and , 268 miles; south to southeast brisk , 205 miles; southeast to southwest briskbreezes and squally. 11th, 308 miles; south tosouthwest strong breeze and squally. 12th, 150miles; southwest, thick weather. Distance sailedfrom Sandy Hook to the Northwest Lightship, 3018miles; passage 13 days 8 hours, mean time. It was during this passage that the Dreadnough
The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews 1843-1869 . ast brisk breezes and clear. 8th, 313 miles;south-southwest to south fresh breezes and , 268 miles; south to southeast brisk , 205 miles; southeast to southwest briskbreezes and squally. 11th, 308 miles; south tosouthwest strong breeze and squally. 12th, 150miles; southwest, thick weather. Distance sailedfrom Sandy Hook to the Northwest Lightship, 3018miles; passage 13 days 8 hours, mean time. It was during this passage that the Dreadnoughtis supposed to have made the run from Sandy Hookto Queenstown in 9 days 17 hours, but an analysisof the abstract log shows that 9 days 21 hours afterdischarging her pilot to the eastward of SandyHook she was not within 400 miles of Queenstown. How this mythical tale originated, is difficult toimagine, but it has been passed along from onescribe to another these many years, until at lastit has reached the dignity of an ^ historical fact,having recently been embalmed in an enough, Captain Samuels appears to be. The ** Dreadnought 247 almost the only person who has written about theDreadnought who does not refer to this fable. Inhis memoirs, he makes no mention of it. The best passage to the westward made by theDreadnought was in 1854, when she ran from theRock Light, Liverpool, to Sandy Hook in 19 daysWhile it cannot be said that the Dreadnought evermade the fastest passage of a sailing vessel betweenNew York and Liverpool, as the records in this re-spect are held by the Red Jacket, Captain AsaEldridge, from Sandy Hook to the Rock Light, in13 days 1 hour, in 1854, and by the Andrew Jackson. Captain John Williams, from Rock Light toSandy Hook in 15 days, in 1860, still the uniformspeed of the Dreadnoughts many voyages entitlesher to a high place among the celebrated packetships of the past. The Dreadnought was a strikingly handsome andwell-designed, though
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