Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . in Charles McDonnell, she made the run from BostonLight to Rock Island Light, in the record time of 12 days and 6hours. In the winter of 1854 and 1855 she ran from Liverpoolto Melbourne in 63 days, and home in 69, thus circumnavigat-ing the globe in the record time of 132 days, her best days runbeing 420 statute miles. On June 17, 1856, she made 21 knotswith main skysail set, the highest rate of speed ever made by asailing vessel. During the Sepoy mutiny the James Baineswas one of the clipper ships to carry troops from
Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . in Charles McDonnell, she made the run from BostonLight to Rock Island Light, in the record time of 12 days and 6hours. In the winter of 1854 and 1855 she ran from Liverpoolto Melbourne in 63 days, and home in 69, thus circumnavigat-ing the globe in the record time of 132 days, her best days runbeing 420 statute miles. On June 17, 1856, she made 21 knotswith main skysail set, the highest rate of speed ever made by asailing vessel. During the Sepoy mutiny the James Baineswas one of the clipper ships to carry troops from England toIndia. She was finally burned at Liverpool, and her hulk wasmade a landing stage for Atlantic steamship passengers. The Dreadnought was built at Newburyport in 1853 byCurrier & Townsend for David Ogden & Co. of New York, and,captained by Samuel Samuels, made many very swift voyages toLiverpool from New York in David Ogdens Red Cross Line. InJanuary, 1856, she made the phenomenal passage from SandyHook to Queenstown in 9 days and 17 hours. On one voyage. 42 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA the crew mutinied, and Captain Samuelss prompt courage alonesaved the ship from seizure. In 1869 she was wrecked on thecrags of Cape Horn, and Captain P. N. Mayhew and her crewwere picked up after being 14 days in open boats. The clipper Huguenot, under command of Sylvanus Nicker-son, foundered in the Indian Ocean while on her way from Ilioloto Boston with a load of sugar, going down in three hours. Her ?ns^msmsc:: ^^^^^^^m % HHK^.*^ ^^^^^ ^^^^Hibp ? \1 ^Ibs^^ ^^ 1 Length, 200 DREADNOUGHT Tonnage, 1413 captain and crew were 8 days in open boats before they landedon an island in the Ormbay Straits. They were made prisonersby a Malay tribe, were released, made their way to anotherisland, and were finally rescued by a Dutch man-of-war. The Formosa was built by John Taylor, at East Boston,in 1868 for Silsbee, Pickman & Allen of Salem. Under Cap-tain Charles H. Allen, Jr., in 1871 she
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