Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . she was the largestand fastest-sailing vessel that had ever visited that port. A monthlater she sailed for Liverpool, crammed with cotton,—cotton onher deck and 50 bales in the captains cabin,—and on his arrivalCaptain Howe wrote the owners, We have given the wholefleet from the North, South, and West a terrible licking. It was i| j^^Kn^L I m^Bl^Bk^ / 1 Ik r A , J ? ^ - Jl K ShM^hA - m s J 1 B h ^^V^ IL i--M ^^^^^Hl^^^^F ^ ^i^^.l0m *s -^^ { H wK~ 1 r ? H HP* ? m Hk ^K 34 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA found, howeve
Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . she was the largestand fastest-sailing vessel that had ever visited that port. A monthlater she sailed for Liverpool, crammed with cotton,—cotton onher deck and 50 bales in the captains cabin,—and on his arrivalCaptain Howe wrote the owners, We have given the wholefleet from the North, South, and West a terrible licking. It was i| j^^Kn^L I m^Bl^Bk^ / 1 Ik r A , J ? ^ - Jl K ShM^hA - m s J 1 B h ^^V^ IL i--M ^^^^^Hl^^^^F ^ ^i^^.l0m *s -^^ { H wK~ 1 r ? H HP* ? m Hk ^K 34 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA found, however, that speed did not compensate for lack of cargocapacity, and in 1856 she was sold to W. F. Weld & Co. for$76,000. This firm employed her in the business to which shewas adapted, and the same year she sailed for California. Sherounded the Horn in 48 days, and reached San Francisco in 107days, beating the Ocean Express, the Toipedo, and everyother vessel sailing about the same time. In 1861 the AndrewJackson made the best passage of the year, 102 days from. Leiifftli. 190 STARLIGHT Tonnage, 1150 New York to San Francisco, and the Reporter, the secondbest, 103 days, beating the fast clippers Golden Eagle, Ro-mance of the Seas, Sierra Nevada, and Great June 3, 1862, the Reporter, Captain William H. White,left New York, for San Francisco, and off Cape Horn shipped atremendous sea, which smashed all the boats and started a were constructed and the vessel abandoned, but, beforerescue by the English bark Enchantress came, all on the raftsbut four had died of cold and hunger.
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