The clipper ship era: an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869Clark, Arthur H.
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The clipper ship era: an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869
Clark, Arthur H.
Clipper ships -- Great Britain; Clipper ships -- United States
The _Comet_ was sold under the British flag and renamed the _Fiery
Star_. She sailed between England and Australia for several years and
was finally burned at sea in 1865, while on a voyage from Moreton Bay,
Queensland, for London. She had been on fire for twenty-one days when
the crew were rescued by the ship _Dauntless_. The _Trade Wind_, while
bound from Mobile for Liverpool, in 1854, was in collision with the ship
_Olympus_, from Liverpool for New York. Both vessels foundered,
forty-four of the sixty-four passengers and crew of the _Trade-Wind_ and
fifty-two of the fifty-eight on board the _Olympus_ being rescued by the
Belgian barque _Stadt Antwerpen_, Captain Wyteerhoven, and landed at New
York.
The _Nightingale_ was sold to a firm in Salem and sent to Rio Janeiro,
where she was bought and sailed in the African slave trade under the
Brazilian flag. About the year 1860 she was captured by a United States
war-vessel and sent home as a prize. She was subsequently fitted out by
the Government as an armed cruiser during the Civil War, and at the
close of the war was sold and sailed in the California and China trade.
Later she sailed for many years under the flag of Norway. The _Shooting
Star_ was sold to a merchant of Siam in 1862 and was wrecked on the
coast of Formosa in 1867. Captain Low remained in command of the _N. B.
Palmer_ until she was sold abroad in 1872. The _Tornado_, _Whirlwind_,
and _Neptune’s Car_ were sold in England and disappeared from the
Shipping Lists many years ago.
The _Golden Light_ under command of Captain C. F. Winsor, sailed from
Boston on her first voyage bound for San Francisco, February 12, 1853,
and ten days out was struck by lightning which set fire to cargo in the
forehold. After every exertion had been made to save the vessel, Captain
Winsor gave orders to abandon the ship, and at 6 P.M., February 23d, her
people took to the boats. At that time the ship was in flames. Her
foremast had burnt off and fallen; soon after her main-and mizzen-masts
went over the side. She had eleven passengers, including three ladies
who were in the long boat with the captain. There were five boats in
all, four of which, after being adrift eight days, were picked up by the
British ship _Shand_ from Calcutta bound for Boston; the other boat, in
charge of the mate, reached Barbadoes in safety, so that all hands were
saved.
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