21. Knoblock, American Clipper Ship, 41.
22. Crothers, American-Built Clipper Ship, 32–39.
23. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 626.
24. McKay, Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships, 119.
25. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 627.
26. Ibid., 615.
27. Knoblock, American Clipper Ship, 170.
28. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 616.
29. Roland, Bolster, and Keyssar, Way of the Ship, 146.
30. John Murray Forbes, Letters and Recollections, vol. 1, 132.
31. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 10.
32. A Souvenir of New York City: Old and New (New York: New York Commercial, 1918), 289.
33. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 146.
34. Knoblock, American Clipper Ship, 168.
Chapter 10: Grinnell Grabs the Flying Cloud
1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Building of a Ship,” Poetry Foundation, accessed September 20, 2016, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44626.
2. Albion, Square-Riggers on a Schedule, 123.
3. Ibid., 121.
4. Walter Barrett, The Old Merchants of New York City, 4th series (New York: Carleton, 1864), 113.
5. William M. Emery, The Howland Heirs: Being the Story of a Family and a Fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust Established for Mrs. Hetty H. R. Green (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony & Sons, 1919), 245–46.
6. Daniel Ricketson, The History of New Bedford (1858), Collection of James Grinnell Jr.
7. Thurlow Weed Barnes, ed., Memoir of Thurlow Weed, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 625.
8. Zephaniah W. Pease, ed. Life in New Bedford a Hundred Years Ago: A Chronicle of the Social, Religious, and Commercial History of the Period in a Diary Kept by Joseph R. Anthony (New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1922), 5.
9. Ibid., 12.
10. Diary of Joseph Anthony, quoted in W. E. Emery, Ancestry of the Grinnell Family (1931), 54, Collection of James Grinnell Jr.
11. Dialogue from Captain William L. Hawes, New Bedford in China (New Bedford, MA: Reynolds, 1940), Collection of James Grinnell Jr.
12. Robert Bowne Minturn, Memoir of Robert Bowne Minturn (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1871), 38–39.
13. Ward, Before the Trumpet (1986), 18.
14. Thurlow Weed Barnes, Autobiography of Thurlow Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 627.
15. Abiel Abbot Low, quoted in Augur, Tall Ships to Cathay, 179.
16. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences, 145.
17. Christopher Klein, “The Warship of Peace That Fed Famine-Stricken Ireland,” History in the Headlines, History.com, March 16, 2015, accessed April 18, 2016, www.history.com/news/the-warship-of-peace-that-fed-famine-stricken-ireland.
18. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences, 194.
19. Warren Delano II to Franklin Delano, January 24, 1845, Papers of Franklin Hughes Delano, 1, Family Correspondence, 1838–1888, container 3, Delano Family Papers, FDR Library.
20. Ibid.
21. Albion, Square-Riggers on a Schedule, 15.
22. Ibid., 122.
23. Ibid.
24. Inventory of the Hathaway Family Business Records, New Bedford Whaling Museum, accessed April 7, 2016, www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/library/finding-aids/mss8.
25. Francis S. Hathaway to Franklin Delano, July 4, 1850, Papers of Franklin Hughes, General Correspondence, 1839–1890, Grinnell, Minturn & Company—Kissam, Philip, 1848–1878, box 10, Delano Family Papers, FDR Library.
26. George Francis Train, My Life in Many States and Lands (Boston: D. Appleton, 1903), 73.
27. “George Francis Train Not to Be Sent to an Insane Asylum,” New York Times, March 27, 1873.
28. Ibid.
29. Margaret Lyon and Flora Elizabeth Reynolds, The Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers (Oakland: Center for the Book, Mills College, 1992), 23.
30. Henry Hall, quoted in Bunting, Portrait of a Port, 71.
Chapter 11: At the Starting Line
1. George Gordon Bennett, New York Herald, February 23, 1846, quoted in Knapp, An Old Merchant’s House, 81.
2. “The Young Lady Who Sings,” Godey’s Lady’s Book, vol. 18 (June 1839), 279, quoted in Knapp, An Old Merchant’s House, 113.
3. “Thou Hast Learned to Love Another” (1845), quoted in Knapp, An Old Merchant’s House, 113.
4. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 165.
5. Low, Some Recollections, 110–11.
6. Ibid.
7. La Grange, Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 124.
8. Ibid., 114.
9. Joan Druett, Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth Century Women at Sea (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 40.
10. Sarah Smith Bowman, letter, June–September 1, 1851, Marblehead Historical Society, Marblehead, Massachusetts, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 23.
11. William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, 1945), 3667.
12. David Shaw, Flying Cloud: The True Story of America’s Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her (New York: HarperCollins Perennial, 2001), 19.
13. Cutler, Greyhounds of the Sea (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930), 183–84.
14. “Eleanor Creesy Navigates the World’s Fastest Clipper,” New England Historical Society, accessed December 14, 2015, www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/eleanor-creesy-navigates-worlds-fastest-clipper-ship.
15. “Israel Whitney Lyon’s Diary,” May 31 and June 3, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 127.
16. Flora Elizabeth Reynolds, Ive Reynolds, and Laura McCreery, A Dukedom Large Enough: Oral History Transcript—Forty Years in Northern California’s Public and Academic Libraries, 1936–1976 (Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2013), 147–48, www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/A_Dukedom_Large_Enough_1000652735/171.
17. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 111.
18. Reverend C. M. Nickels, quoted in La Grange, Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 130.
19. Ibid., 126.
20. “Robert ‘Bully’ Waterman,” Maritime Heritage Project—San Francisco, 1846–1899, accessed January 3, 2016, www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/waterman.htm.
21. Whipple, Seafarers, 86.
22. La Grange, Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 132.
23. Rich Evans, “Sailing Knives,” Sailing Magazine, January 1, 2013, http://sailingmagazine.net/article-1279-sailing-knives.html.
Chapter 12: Around the World
1. F. S. Hathaway, May 30, 1851, Morgan Collection, Harvard Business School, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 22.
2. “Clipper Ships,” January 16, 1853, Daily Alta California, San Francisco, quoted in “Clipper Ships and Windjammers,” Maritime Heritage Project—Maritime Nations, accessed June 18, 2016, www.maritimeheritage.org/ships/Clippers-Annals-of-San-Francisco-1852.html.
3. Bowman, letter, June–September 1, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, app. 6.
4. Ibid.
5. Richard Cadwalader to author, email, dated February 25, 2017.
6. Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 106.
7. Bowman, letter, June–September 1, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, app. 6.
8. Ibid., 23.
9. Ibid., app. 6.
10. Ibid.
11. Whipple, Challenge, 121–22.
12. Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, 26.
13. Bowman, letter, June–September 1, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, app. 6.
14. Whipple, Challenge, 146.
15. Bowman, letter, June–September 1, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, app. 6.
16. Lars Bruzelius, “John Gilpin,”
Maritime History Virtual Archives, last modified September 9, 1996, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/John_Gilpin(1852).html.
17. Herman Melville, White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War, vol. 1 (London: Richard Bentley, 1850), 51.
18. Low, Some Recollections, 111.
19. Ibid.
20. Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, 411.
21. Low, Some Recollections, 95–97.
22. “Ship Flying Cloud, Capt. J. P. Creesy,” September 1, 1851, Daily Alta California, San Francisco, www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/creesy.html.
23. Low, Some Recollections, 111–13.
24. Abiel Abbott Low, An Entertainment Given to Mr. A. A. Low by Members of the New York Chamber of Commerce on His Return from a Voyage Around the World (New York: Press of the Chamber of Commerce, 1867), 11.
25. “California Gold Rush (1848–1858), Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930, Harvard University Open Collections Program, accessed July 28, 2016, http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/goldrush.html.
26. Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855, Abraham Lincoln Online: Speeches and Writings, accessed August 1, 2016, www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/speed.htm.
27. Whipple, Challenge, 146.
28. Whipple, Seafarers, 90.
29. La Grange, Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 134.
30. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 183.
31. Whipple, Challenge, 161–62.
32. Ibid., 162–64.
33. Melville, White-Jacket, vol. 1, 152.
34. “Robert ‘Bully’ Waterman,” Maritime History Project—San Francisco 1846–1899, accessed June 20, 2016, www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/waterman.htm.
35. Sarah Bowman to Kate Bowman, July 22, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 139.
36. Captain Josiah Creesy, Log of the Flying Cloud, August 31, 1851, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 145.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 61.
40. Freight Bills, F. Cloud, Paid, September 2–27, 1851, Morgan Collection, Harvard Business School, quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 66.
41. Alta California, September 24–October 11, 1851, as quoted in Lyon and Reynolds, Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers, 58.
42. Donald McKay, quoted in Mary Ellen Chase, Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), n.p.
43. Some Ships of the Clipper Ship Era: Their Builders, Owners, and Captains (Boston: State Street Trust, 1913).
44. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 205.
45. Robert Waterman, quoted in Whipple, Challenge, 200.
46. Ibid., 195.
47. California Courier, November 1, 1851, “Robert ‘Bully’ Waterman,” Maritime Heritage Project—San Francisco, 1846–1899, accessed June 20, 2016, www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/waterman.htm.
48. Whipple, Challenge, 199.
49. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 187.
50. Whipple, Challenge, 200.
51. “Sixteen Days Later from California,” New York Times, December 1, 1851.
Chapter 13: Frightful to Look Aloft: Sovereign of the Seas
1. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 228.
2. Whipple, Challenge, 213.
3. Ibid., 210.
4. Whipple, Challenge, 211.
5. Richard Crawford, “Eucalyptus Trees Have Long Roots in State’s History,” San Diego UnionTribune online, September 4, 2008, www.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20080904/news_1sz4history.html.
6. “Maury’s Sailing Directions,” Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review 30, no. 5 (May 1854): 533.
7. London Times, 1850, quoted in Whipple, Seafarers, 71.
8. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 91.
9. Paine, Old Merchant Marine, 161.
10. Lars Bruzelius, “Chrysolite,” Maritime History Virtual Archive, last modified August 24, 1996, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Chrysolite(1851).html.
11. Henry Blaney, Journal of Voyages to China and Return, 1851–1853 (Boston: printed privately, 1913), 78.
12. Bruzelius, “Chrysolite.”
13. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 202–3.
14. James Steers, August 15, 1851, quoted in Charles Boswell, The America: The Story of America’s Most Famous Yacht (New York: David McKay, 1967), 72.
15. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 204.
16. Ibid., 205.
17. Ibid., 222–23.
18. Carse, The Moonrakers, 70.
19. Low, Some Recollections, 119.
20. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 191.
21. Low, Some Recollections, 120.
22. “Brief History of Punishment by Flogging in the US Navy,” Naval History and Heritage Command, last modified November 18, 2015, www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/brief-history-punishment-flogging-us-navy.html.
23. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 215.
24. Low, Some Recollections, 119–23.
25. Ibid., 128–37.
26. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 136.
27. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences, 359.
28. “The New Ship Antelope of Boston,” Boston Daily Atlas, November 29, 1851, Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed March 14, 2016, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA%281851-11-29%29.html.
29. Duncan McLean, “The Largest Clipper in the World,” Boston Daily Atlas, May 25, 1852, Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed August 24, 2015, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1852-05-25).html.
30. Boston Daily Atlas, 1852, quoted in Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, vol. 2, 600–1.
31. “On Board Ship Sovereign of the Seas,” Boston Daily Atlas, December 17, 1852, Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed March 7, 2016, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1852-12-17)b.html.
32. Basil Lubbock, Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships (New York: Madison Square Press, 1972), 47.
33. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 76.
34. Boston Daily Atlas, August 5, 1852, Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed November 14, 2016, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1852-08-05)b.html.
35. “On Board Ship Sovereign of the Seas,” Boston Daily Atlas, December 17, 1852.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 218.
41. Ibid., 220.
42. Ibid.
43. Johnson, Cunard Story, 31.
44. Helen La Grange, Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain (New York: G.P. Putman’s Sons, 1936), 178.
45. William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Education Foundation, 1945–1955), 1200.
46. McKay, Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships, 188.
47. Ibid.
48. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, vol. 1, 599.
49. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 221.
Chapter 14: Great Republic
1. Duncan McLean, Descriptions of the Largest Ship Our World: The New Clipper Great Republic of Boston (Boston: Eastburn’s Press, 1853), 23.
2. Francis B. C. Bradlee, The Ship “Great Republic” and Donald McKay Her Builder (Salem, MA: Salem Institute, 1927), 20.
3. Boston Post, October 5, 1853, quoted in “Great Republic,” Manhattan Sailing Club, accessed January 28, 2014, www.sailmsc.com/Boats/club/Great%20Republic.htm.
4. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 254.
5. Crothers, American-Built Clipper Ship, 114.
6. Knoblock, American Clipper Ship, Kindle edition, location 1958 of 9860.
7. Donald McKay to Lauchlan McKay, 1856, from Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 68.
8. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 26–27.
9. “Council Paper,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 28, 1854, 2, National Library of Australia online, accessed September 19, 2015, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12954149.
10. Barbaix to author, email, February 25, 2017.
11. “The Clipper Barque Mermaid,” Boston Daily Atlas, June 15, 1852, Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed June 12, 2016, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA%281852-06-15%29a.html.
12. Robert Bennet Forbes to Donald McKay, October 8, 1853, “The Clipper Ship That Built Snug Harbor,” New England Historical Society, accessed May 18, 2016, www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/clipper-ship-built-sailors-snug-harbor.
13. Ibid.
14. Cadwalader to author, email, February 25, 2017.
15. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 227.
16. Diary of Robert Bennet Forbes, October 4, 1853, Robert Bennet Forbes Papers, Ms.N-49.70, 1817–1967 (Bulk: 1817–1889), Diaries, 1840–1869, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
17. Helen Auger, Tall Ships to Cathay (Garden City: Doubleday, 1951), 231.
18. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 255.
19. Donald McKay to Lauchlan McKay, 1856, quoted in Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 61, 66.
20. McKay, Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships, 237.
21. Sam Roberts, “New York’s Crystal Palace: A Fleeting Monument to Conspicuous Consumption,” New York Times online, April 27, 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/arts/design/newyorks-crystal-palace-a-fleeting-monument-to-conspicuous-consumption.html.
22. NewYork Daily Tribune, December 26, 1853, 7, Library of Congress online, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1853-12-26/ed-1/seq-7.
23. Jasmin K. Williams, “The Great Fire of 1835,” New York Post online, November 16, 2007, http://nypost.com/2007/11/16/the-great-fire-of-1835-3.
24. “The Great Conflagration,” New York Times online, December 28, 1853, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archivefree/pdf?res=9E01E7D6143EE13AA1575BC2A9649D946292D7CF.
25. “Great Conflagration,” New York Times online, December 27, 1853, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archivefree/pdf?res=9503EEDF103AE334BC4F51DFB4678388649FDE.
26. Ibid.
27. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 143.
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