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was powerfully and heavily constructed to handle the heavy seas and storms of the Australian run. Only the finest materials went into her construction. She cost £30,000 to build, and Baines put in another £2,000 in interior decoration, adding fine woods, marble, gilding and stained glass. It is said
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began to set records. She crossed from New York to Liverpool in 13 days, 19½ hours, and she sailed 436 nautical miles (807 km) in 24 hours, doing 18 to 18½ knots. In 1854–55, she made the passage from Melbourne to Liverpool in 65 days, completing a circumnavigation of the world in 5 months, 9
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s hollow bow was ignorantly filled in by her captain Anthony Enright. McKay called the people who did it "the wood butchers of Liverpool". When the famous James "Bully" Forbes became her captain, he drove her mercilessly, often running with the
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is a prime example of a change in thinking that turned builders away from shaping ships' hulls like cod's heads and mackerel tails. She had 16 feet (4.9 m) of concavity in her bows and a beautiful fine run, yet she also had a moderate
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was built in 1854 in Boston, America's clipper boom was on the wane. The Australian gold rush was on, however, and McKay was building ships for
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her by cutting holes on the waterline, and she sank in 27 feet (8.2 m) of water. The shoals became known as "Lightning Shoals".
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Her builder was the famous Donald McKay of Boston, a follower of John Willis Griffiths and his principles of ship design.
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fire from the shore were unsuccessful. At about four in the afternoon some of the crew
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19 kn (35 km/h); best 24-hour run: 436 nautical miles (807 km) in 1854
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was the most extreme example of a type of ship classified as an extreme clipper.
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did a brief stint as a troop ship, taking British soldiers from England to
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Some famous sailing ships and their builder, Donald McKay
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full-rigged three-masted sailing ship (clipper rigging)
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Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom
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An on-ship newspaper called the 243:hull: 237.5 ft (72.4 m), 14: 2458:Troop ships of the United Kingdom 384:and a good full midsection with 38: 21: 2468:Shipwrecks of Victoria (state) 2443:Ships designed by Donald McKay 657:Wilson, Charles J. A. (1971). 481:In 1867, she was purchased by 276:23 ft (7.0 m) loaded 141:18 February – 3 March 1854 to 1: 728:Shipping Wonders of the World 600:. 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Index


RN Ensign
James Baines & Co.
Donald McKay
East Boston
British Merchant Navy
Liverpool
Scuttled
Geelong
Australia
GRT
LOA
clipper ship
United States
Donald McKay
James Baines
Black Ball Line
Liverpool
Australia
deadrise
tumblehome
James Baines
Black Ball Line
Queen Mary

lee
India
1857 Indian Mutiny
Thomas Harrison

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