Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . 28 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA ship at sea. She carried a cargo weighing 2,950 tons, a portionof which was flour that sold for $44 a barrel; while her totalfreight was valued at $84,000. Thousands of people were aboutthe wharf to greet her, and, when she arrived, the sailors sang,— O Susannah darling, take your ease,For we have beat the clipper fleet,The Sovereign of the Leiifftli, -)« so\i:Ki;i(iN OF Tonnage, 2li\ According to Lieutenant Maury, the best authority, she sailed,from March 9th to the 31st 43
Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . 28 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA ship at sea. She carried a cargo weighing 2,950 tons, a portionof which was flour that sold for $44 a barrel; while her totalfreight was valued at $84,000. Thousands of people were aboutthe wharf to greet her, and, when she arrived, the sailors sang,— O Susannah darling, take your ease,For we have beat the clipper fleet,The Sovereign of the Leiifftli, -)« so\i:Ki;i(iN OF Tonnage, 2li\ According to Lieutenant Maury, the best authority, she sailed,from March 9th to the 31st 433 statute miles a day. She wentemj)ty to Honolulu, and loaded with sperm oil for New York,making some remarkable runs on the voyage. One day she ran424 miles, and sailed during a portion of the 24 hours at a ratewhich must have been almost twenty knots an hour. She madethe passage in 80 days. She then sailed to Liverpool in 13 daysand 22 hours, outsailing in 5 days the Cunard steamer Canadaby 325 miles. In 1858 she was sold in London for $40,000, and SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA 29 eventually she ran on Pyramid Shoal in the Straits of Malaccaand was lost. The reproduction of the Westward Ho shows the clouds ofcanvas which the clipper ships carried. She, too, was built byDonald McKay, and was one of 33 clippers launched in 1852,and was owned by Sampson & Tappan and commanded byCaptain Hussey. She was finally burned at Callao.
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