The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . by Donald McKay at Boston, 1851,1783 tons. Model by Herbert M. C. Skinner, scale | inch to 1 Flying Cloud twice made the passage from New York toSan Francisco in 89 days, thus holding the record among clipperships; her commander, Josiah Perkins Creesy was born inMarblehead in 1814 and in his later years lived in of Mr. Skinners models are worked out with great accuracyand are beautifully finished. To give some idea of the laborvalue alone of a finely made half-hull model, Mr. Skinnerwrites, — The model of the Flying Cloud repr
The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . by Donald McKay at Boston, 1851,1783 tons. Model by Herbert M. C. Skinner, scale | inch to 1 Flying Cloud twice made the passage from New York toSan Francisco in 89 days, thus holding the record among clipperships; her commander, Josiah Perkins Creesy was born inMarblehead in 1814 and in his later years lived in of Mr. Skinners models are worked out with great accuracyand are beautifully finished. To give some idea of the laborvalue alone of a finely made half-hull model, Mr. Skinnerwrites, — The model of the Flying Cloud represents 151hours of actual work besides 39 hours more spent in makingdrawings and patterns. It is the time, too, of a skilled artisan. Forrester, ship, of Salem, built at Newbury, 1839, 427 tons. Frank, schooner, built at Chester, N. S., 1860. Frank G. Rich, schooner, of Salem, built by Willard A. Burnham at Essex, Mass. Genevieve Loretto, schooner, built by Horace Burnham at Essex,Mass. The schooner T raj ton was built from the same V V W Hi1: / / 1/ 1 c :1ft ;aHRf e1m|B c I ||J / M- —J 8 IHJ wfir^l p * t Gemsbock, bark, of New York, built at Boston, 1857, 476 tons. Glide, bark, of Salem, built by E. F. Miller at Salem, 1861, 495 tons. Golden West, clipper ship, built by Paul Curtis at Boston, 1852,1443 tons. Golconda, bark, built at Boston, 1866, 521 tons. Guide, bark, of Salem, built by E. F. Miller at Salem, 1857, 495 tons. Hancock, bark, built at Bucksport, Maine, 1869, 412 tons. Harry Bluff, schooner, built by Joshua Brown at Salem, 1870, 84tons. Harry Knowlton, schooner, built at Staten island, N. Y., 1890,317 tons. Model by Herbert M. C. Skinner, scale j inch to 1 foot,The Harry Knowlton, loaded with coal, on February 11, Long Island Sound, struck the Providence - bound steamerLarchmont, formerly the International Line steamer Cumberland,which sunk in twelve minutes with a loss of 89 passengers and44 of the crew. Idaho, schooner, built by Joshua Bro
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