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7104Some Ships of the Clipper Ships Era
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Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
  • State Street Trust Company, Boston, Mass.
  • 1913
  • 45
  • 1 book
  • good
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Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)


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…The very name "clipper ship" conveys an idea of speed, the main purpose of their builders, and was derived from the word "clip." …Harris system of lightning men and conductors, and was intended to carry a crew of 100 was unknown, so that all her standing rigging was hemp, her main …the temperance feet, In def- sentiment then prevalent she was christened with a bottle of Cochituate water. 130 of Her foremast was her main 131 …In 1857 a gale off Liverpool forced her to cut away the main and mizzen masts in order to wear, and thus she made her way ent times SOME SHIPS OF THE