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Title: The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews 1843-1869
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Clark, Arthur Hamilton, 1841-1922
Subjects: Clipper ships
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rom Shanghaito London the Thermopylw was 106 days; CuttySarhy 110 days, and Forward Ho, 118 days. Thiswas about the last of the tea clipper racing, forthe combined competition of steam and the SuezCanal proved too powerful for sail. No more teaclippers were built after 18G9; by degrees thesebeautiful vessels were driven into other trades; andso the Clipper Ship Era drifted into history. Great Britain had regained her empire upon thesea, and few British ship-owners could be foundwho any longer doubted the wisdom of Free Trade.Through the irony of fate, Duncan Dunbar, whohad been one of the most vehement opponents ofthe repeal of the Navigation Laws, became underthe new conditions, the largest ship-owner and oneof the wealthiest in the United Kingdom, leaving athis death an estate of £1,500,000. In comparing the speed of the British tea clipperswith that of American clipper ships, a good dealdepends on what is meant by speed. In ordinaryweather at sea, when great power to carry sail is
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Later British Tea Clippers 337 not required, the British tea clippers were extremelyfast vessels, chiefly on account of their narrow beam,which gave their hulls a comparatively small wettedsurface, and their smooth copper bottoms whichreduced skin resistance. Under these conditionsthey were, perhaps, as fast as the American clippersof the same class, though from very different causes;—such ships, for instance, as the ^ea Witch, SamuelRussell, Game Cock, Phantom, White Squall, Night-ingale, Shooting Star, Northern Light, Surprise,Witch of the Wave, Sivord-Fish, and others. Butif speed is to be considered as the maximum per-formance of a ship under the most favorable con-ditions, though these conditions may not oftenoccur, then the British tea clippers were certainlyno match for the larger American ships such asthe Flying Cloud, Typhoon, Neptunes Car, Chal-lenge, Comet, Hurricane, Flying Fish, Stag-Hound,Young America, Trade-Wind, and others of thisclass, to say nothing of the James B

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