. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Medium Clipper Coeur de Lion built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1854. Taken off the half-model in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Athenaeum. A painting of this ship, in the Watercraft Collection, is shown, opposite. building boom was almost fully deflated before 1857, for high freight rates were no longer obtainable in the California and China trades, owing to the huge number of ships competing for cargoes and the increasing ability of California and the Northwest coast to provide many of the necessities formerly brought from
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Medium Clipper Coeur de Lion built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1854. Taken off the half-model in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Athenaeum. A painting of this ship, in the Watercraft Collection, is shown, opposite. building boom was almost fully deflated before 1857, for high freight rates were no longer obtainable in the California and China trades, owing to the huge number of ships competing for cargoes and the increasing ability of California and the Northwest coast to provide many of the necessities formerly brought from the East. The whole development and decline of the American clipper ship occurred in the short period of 9 or 10 years. Although Americans did not build any extreme clippers after the Civil War, the British continued their development through the 1860's and into the 1870's. In the last years of British develop- ment many very extreme ships, some as extreme as the Sunny South, were built in England and Scotland, though of an entirely different model. Attempts to make comparisons between British and American clipper ships are useless, for the two national types were designed to meet entirely different requirements of weather and sea and trade conditions. In the 1850"s, when British and American ships were temporarily in the same trades, the Americans appear to have had the faster ships on the average but late in the 1850's the American advantage had almost disappeared in any of the trades where the ships competed. Such competition was so limited, however, that any conclusion based on relative speed of indi- vidual clippers is misleading. While the Americans can claim credit for introducing the extreme clipper and the clipper designs, they did not maintain a monopoly on the design of very fast merchant ships and many such were launched in Europe during the last years of the American clipper ship period and for about 10 years thereafter. A reason for the American failure to r
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