American Built Clipper Ship

Author : William L. Crothers
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780071358231
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856 written by William L. Crothers and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American-Built Clipper Ship presents in detail 152 clippers that comprise the culmination of the shipbuilder's art. Every facet of clipper-ship design and construction is covered, from felling timber to details on interior finish work. Detailed drawings illustrate this work.

Author : Crothers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780701450168
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Built Clipper Ship written by Crothers and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602840
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Clipper Ship, 1845–1920 written by Glenn A. Knoblock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the Flying Cloud and Challenge discussed in detail, but they are also put in context with the times in which they operated. Their builders in East Coast states from Maine to Florida are discussed in detail, as are the men, and a woman in one instance, who commanded and manned these ships. The book documents the roles that owners and shipping agents played, what kinds of cargo the ships carried worldwide and the unusual trades in which they participated.

Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William L. Crothers
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470062
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American-Built Packets and Freighters of the 1850s written by William L. Crothers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up and down the Eastern seaboard during the 1850s, American shipyards constructed numerous large wooden merchant sailing vessels that formed the backbone of the commercial shipping industry. This comprehensive volume appraises in minute detail the construction of these ships, outlining basic design criteria and enumerating and examining every plank and piece of timber involved in the process, including the keel, frames, hull and deck planking, stanchions, knees, deck houses, bulworks, railings, interior structures and arrangements. More than 150 illustrations illuminate the size, shape, location and pertinent specifics of each item. Complete with a glossary of contemporary industry terms, this work represents the definitive study of the mid-nineteenth century's great American-built square rigged ships.

Author : Octavius Thorndike Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858 written by Octavius Thorndike Howe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Dean
Publisher : Tilbury House Distr
ISBN 13 : 9780884482314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow Squall written by Nicholas Dean and published by Tilbury House Distr. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet The biography of a ship, her people, & her trade, with an account of an expedition to the Falkland Islands to bring parts of her bow back to Maine maritime museums.

Author : David W. Shaw
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061873888
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Cloud written by David W. Shaw and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, traveling from New York to San Francisco in only 89 days. This swift passage set a world record that went unbroken for more than a century. Upon arrival in San Francisco, Flying Cloud became an enduring symbol of a young nation's daring frontier spirit. Illustrated with original maps and charts as well as historical photographs, Shaw's compelling narrative captures the drama of this thrilling adventure. In a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-19th century, Eleanor Creesy served as the ship's navigator. With only the sun, planets, and stars to guide her, she brought Flying Cloud safely around Cape Horn at the height of a winter blizzard, faced storms, dodged shoals, and found her way through calms to make the swift passage possible. Along with her husband, Josiah, the ship's captain, she sailed the mighty 3-masted clipper through 16,000 miles of the fiercest, most unpredictable oceans in the world. Shaw vividly recreates 19th-century seafaring conditions and customs, for both the crew and the passengers who entrusted their fate to an untested ship. Including excerpts from letters and diaries of passengers, Shaw recounts Flying Cloud's victory in the face of adversity—including sabotage, insubordination, and severe damage to the clipper's mainmast that might have sunk her with all hands lost. But the ship triumphed and would ultimately sail the world. Flying Cloud brings to life, for the first time, the glory of one of America's most important seafaring tales and one woman's incredible achievements.

Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230449081
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era; an Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843-1869 written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...and famous Typhoon, a ship more than double her size. It should, however, be remembered with regard to the Sea Witch, that she was at that time over five years old, and had led a pretty wild life under Waterman, while she had known no peace with Frazer in command, and had been strained and weakened by hard driving. Moreover, a wooden ship, after five or six years, begins to lose her speed through absorbing water, and becomes sluggish in light airs. In her prime and at her best with Waterman in command, the Sea Witch was probably the fastest sailing-ship of her inches ever built. The California clippers were, of course, racing all the time, against each other and against the record, aDd the strain upon their captains in driving their ships against competitors whose relative positions were unknown, was terrific. It became a confirmed habit with them to keep their ships going night and day in all weathers and at their utmost speed. In order to appreciate what a passage of 110 days or less from an Atlantic port to San Francisco really means, we must take a few of the long passages of 1851, made by ships that were not clippers: Arthur, from New York, 200 days; Austerlitz, Boston, 185 days; Barrington, Boston, 180 days; Bengal, Philadelphia, 185 days; Capitol, Boston, 300 days; Cornwallis, New York, 204 days; Franconia, Boston, 180 days; Henry Allen, New York, 225 days; Inconium, Baltimore, 190 days. The logs of these vessels tell of long, weary days and nights of exasperating calms, and dreary, heartbreaking weeks of battle with tempests off Cape Horn. Some of the vessels built in 1851 did not take part in the races of that year, as they were not launched until too late; and did not arrive at San Francisco before 1852. Those among them which...

Author : Steven Ujifusa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645090
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by Steven Ujifusa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner in history. The story of a great American Builder at the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the SS United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when “made in America” meant the best. Gibbs was an American original, on par with John Roebling of the Brooklyn Bridge and Frank Lloyd Wright of Fallingwater. Forced to drop out of Harvard following his family’s sudden financial ruin, he overcame debilitating shyness and lack of formal training to become the visionary creator of some of the finest ships in history. He spent forty years dreaming of the ship that became the SS United States. William Francis Gibbs was driven, relentless, and committed to excellence. He loved his ship, the idea of it, and the realization of it, and he devoted himself to making it the epitome of luxury travel during the triumphant post-World War II era. Biographer Steven Ujifusa brilliantly describes the way Gibbs worked and how his vision transformed an industry. A Man and His Ship is a tale of ingenuity and enterprise, a truly remarkable journey on land and sea.