Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . was loading for with a cargo of guns, powder, and cotton cloth. TheUnited States war-vessel Saratoga in the spring of 1861captured her on the African coast, loaded with 961 slaves andcommanded nominally by a Spaniard, but really by FrancisBowen. She was sent to New York, condemned, and finallysold for $13,000. During a part of the Civil War she was usedby the government as a supply and coal ship. She was sold for$15,000, and went under Norwegian colors. The Herald of the Morning, another famous clipper, in185
Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . was loading for with a cargo of guns, powder, and cotton cloth. TheUnited States war-vessel Saratoga in the spring of 1861captured her on the African coast, loaded with 961 slaves andcommanded nominally by a Spaniard, but really by FrancisBowen. She was sent to New York, condemned, and finallysold for $13,000. During a part of the Civil War she was usedby the government as a supply and coal ship. She was sold for$15,000, and went under Norwegian colors. The Herald of the Morning, another famous clipper, in1855 went from New York to San Francisco in 99 days, and in 38 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA 1867 in 102 days. While off Cape Horn in a voyage from Callaoto Hampton Roads, she struck a large whale and lost seven feetof her bow, having to throw part of her cargo overboard toprevent her from sinking. She, too, eventually went under theNorwegian flag. The Golden Fleece, another of the W. F. Weld & Co. clip-pers, was built in East Boston by Paul Curtis in 1855, and was. Leng:th, 260 RED JACKET Tonnagre, from the same model as the Reporter. A knight in armor wascarried as a figure-head. While entering the Golden Gate in 1857,she struck Four Fathom Bar off Point Bonita, but managedto reach her wharf with twelve feet of water in her hold. Finally,in 1878, she was caught in a storm off Montevideo while on avoyage from San Francisco to Boston. Badly damaged, she putinto port, and was condemned and sold. The Red Jacket was one of the most famous of the Austra-lian packets of the White Star Line. She was built in 1853 by
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