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                II. Lithographs -

   N. CURRIER and CURRIER & IVES

                A. CLIPPER SHIPS AND OTHER SAIL

ADELAIDE- 1831 (American measurement0
1694t (british measurement) 1854 New York
- Off SandyHook. "Hove to for a pilot". Built
to be a Liverpool packet she started in the California
trade because of the demand for tonnage. In 1860
she went to Liverpool and eantered the trade for
  which she was built, She established a reputation
for seaworthiness and speed..In 1875 she was
reported lost.

From a coloured lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1856
Sketch by J Smith & Son, On stone by C. Parsons.
"American Clipper Ships, Vol. I" by O. T. Howe &
F.C. Matthews (Marine Research Society, Salem Mass.1926)

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"The Clipper Yacht 'AMERICA' Winner of the
Royal Yacht Squadron's Cup". In August 1851,
the American yacht won the Cup in theRoyal
Yacht Squadron 's 53 mile (85 kn) yacht race
around the Isle of Wight. The Cup subsequently
became the "America Cup.

Pubblished by Currier & Ives
   (Vanessa Rudisill Stern's Gallery
of Currier & Ives Lithographs)
   C1175 G1282

COMET - 1,836t 1851 New York.
An extreme clipper built by William H. Webb.
She was regarded as on of the fastest sailors and
successful sailing ships of her time. In the voyage
pictured in the N. Currier lithograph, she made a
record passage of 103 days to San Francisco,
In 1863, she was purchased by the Black Ball Line
of Liverpool for its Queensland service.and renamed
FIERY STAR. 1n April 1865 on a return voyage
from Moreton Bay, Queensland, a fire in her wool
cargo which resulted in her loss.
   "In a hurricane off Bermudaon her voyage from
New York to San Francisco October 2, 1852."

Del. C. Parsons; Lith. by N. Currier;
published by N. Currier 1855
"Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
(The Studio Limited, London 1932)

CHALLENGE - 2,006t 1851 New York.
Built by William H . Webb, she was the largest
and longest vessel buit at that time. Her owners
   expected an initial record breaking voyage to
California and China,and she was then to go to
England to race any British clipper, the winner
to take both vessels. Bad weather and a mutiny
on her maiden voyage tp San Francico did not
enhance her reputation. Subsequently in 1852,
she carried tea to London and reached the
Downs in 105 days. In 1861 she was sold,
renamed GOLDEN CITY and put in the China
and India trade with Hong Kong as hailing port.
   In 1866 she was bought by British owners and
put in the Java and Bombay trade On a voyage
to Java and in a gale off the Cape of Good Hope
a wave swept seven men off the deck killing all
the officers excepth the third mate On her next
voyage in 1876, she was wrecked off the French
coast. .

F. Brown Del., Published by N. Currier 1852
"American Clipper Ships, Vol. I" by O.T. Howe & F.C Matthews
(Marine and Research Society, Salem, Mass. 1926)

CUMBERLAND - U.S. Frigate, 54 guns.
The flag ship of the Gulf Squadron.

Lithograph in colour by N. Currier, published 1848
"The Sea Its History & Romance IV" by Frank C. Bowen
(Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd., London 1930)

DREADNOUGHT- 1413t 1853 Newburyport, Mass.
"Off Tuscar Light"
Built for the Red Cross Line of New York and Liverpool packets,
She completed 31 return voyages between New York and Liverpool
in the ten years from Dec.1853 to Feb. 1864. In 1864, she was put
on the New York to SanFrancisco run She met her end when she
came ashore rounding Cape Horn in July 1869. After much hardship
the crew were rescued by a Norwegian ship..

D. McFarlane, artist; C.H. Parsons, delineator.
N. Currier 1856
(Vanessa Rudisill Stern's Gallery
of Currier & Ives Lithographs)

DREADNOUGHT - "Off Sandy Hook February 23rd 1954,
nineteen days from Liverpool."

From a coloured lithograph N. Currier published in 1854.
The lithograph is after a painting by J.E. Butterworth, and
C. Parsons was the Delineator.
"American Clipper Ships Vol. I" by O.T. Howe & F. Matthews
   (Maine Research Society, Salem, Mass. 1926)

   FLYING CLOUD - 1,750t 1851 East Boston.
An extreme clipper uilt by Donald McKay fro a
New York firm. In her first voyage from New
York in June 1851, she reached San francisco in
      89 days and 21 hoursthe anchor to anchor. The
   second fastest passage made despite the loss of the
   main and mizzen top gallant masts three days out of
   New York.In her fourth voyage from New York in
January 1854 she was 89 days 9 hours anchor to
anchor to San Francico. A record the stood until
the late 1880s.In a voyage. In her sixth and last
Cape Horn passage in 1856, she made herfastest
day's run of her career of 492 nautical miles. She
was laid up in San Francisco until 1857 then in New
York was laid up for two years nine month. In Dec.
1859 she went to Enland and loaded at London and
   carried a cargo from Foochow back to London.In
1861 she went to Melbourn and then Hongkong
where she was offered for sale, freight or charter
and was engaged to carry troops back to London.
At some point she had pased to British owners and
and entered the Australian trade carrying immigrants
to Queensland. On one account,she made a reord
passage in 1867 from London to Moreton Bay of 71
days and on another account made a passage of 87
days to Hervey's Bay, north Queensland.in 1870.
She ended her days in the trade between St Johns
and London. In 1874, she went ashore near St Johns.
She broke her back and wascondemned and sold.
She was burnt for her copper and metal fastenings. .

Del. F.Brown Jr; Lith. by N. Currier; published by N. Currier 1852
ClipperShips - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3
(The Studio Limited, London 1932)

GREAT REPUBLIC - 4,555t 1853 Boston, Mass. Launched in October
1853, she made a passage to New York where after loading cargo for
Liverpool her rigging caught fire from embers of buildings on fire. The
vessel was salvaged and rebuilt toa lesser tonnage of 3,357t and a
reduced sail plan. She sailed to Europe in February 1855 still the largest
sailing ship in the world. She was chatrtered by the French Government
as a transport for the Crimean War.In late 1856, she was in the New York-
California trade. In 1869, she was sold to a liverpool company, renamed
DENMARK, and put in the East India trade. In 1872, she sprang a leak
off Bermuda and was abandoned.

Artist:J.F. Butterworth; Lith. by N.Currier; published 1853
   "Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
   (The Studio Limited, London 1932)

   LIGHTNING - 2,084t 1854 East Boston, Mass. - Built by
Doald McKay for James Baines. Black Ball Line of Liverpool.
In the Australian emigrant trade she made made a record
passage from Melbourne to Liverpool. She is regarded as
one of the fastest sailing ship of her time. She was destroyed
by fire at Melbourne in October 1869.

  Del. C. Parsons; Lith. by N. Currier; published 1854
(Vanessa Rudisill Stern's Gallery of Currier &
Ives Lithographs) C1158 G1275

   NIGHTINGALE - 1,066t 1851 Portsmouth, N.H.,U.S.A. Built to
exhibit at the London Wolrld Fair 1851. Because of financial difficulties
to a Salem firm and sent ot Rio de Janeiro where she was again sold.
Under the Brazilian flag became an African slave trader. Circa 1860,
captured by a U.S. naval vessel and sent back to the United States
as a prize. She served as an armed cruiser during the American Civil
War. After the war she was sold to Norwegian interests. Abandoned
at sea in 1893.
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Del. C. Parsons; Lith. N. Currier; published 1854
(Old Ship PictureGalleries - http://www.photoship.co.uk)

OCEAN EXPRESS - 1,483t n.m. 1854 Medford, Mass..
In the Pacific trade until1863 when she was sold to James
  Baines of Liverpool's. Blackball Line. She was renamed
LIGHT BRIGADE and in the  Australian emigrant trade.
In 1875, she was barque rigged with new London owners.
She was subsequently in the Quebec timber trade and in
1883 after arrivived in Queenstown from New York leaking
badly. Sometime later she was converted into a coal hulk
at Gibralter.

Outward bound, "Discharging the pilot"
   Sketched by J. Smith & Sons, Brooklyn, L.I.
On stone by C. Parsos
Lith. & Pub. by Currter & Ives - 1856
(Vanessa Rudisill Stern's Gallery of Currier
& Ives Lithographs)



QUEEN OF CLIPPERS - 2,361 (American measurement)
1853 East Boston, Mass. Built for the California Gold Rush.
In her maiden voyage to the Pacific she started from New
York in June 1853 with 3,000 tons of freight. She had
developed a serious leak by the time she reached San
   Francico. On her return journey she went into Callao, Peru,
from where she left in ballast in Feb. 1854 but was forcedd to
go into Bahia during her return passage because of the leak.
She reached New York in June 1854. She subsequently went
to Liverpool and then the Mediterranean. During the
Crimean War she was chartered by the French Government.
In 1856, she wa s reportedly sold to Marseilles owners She
is reported to have been lost a few years later but there are
no details.

Lith. and Published by N. Currier
(Royal Museums Greenwich, London - PAD6462)

RACER- 1,669t (o.m.) 1851 Newburyport, Mass. Built to be
a packet in the Red Cross Line between New York and Liverpool.
After two return voyages to Liverpool.she was put on the New
York to San Francisco. run. She reached San Francisco in Oct.
1852, an then crossed to Shanghai and then to London wher she
arrived. in Dec. 1853. She obtained a lucrative charter to Sydney
then went to Calcutta before returning to London.. In 1854 she
agin voyaged from London to Syney, Calcutta returning to London.
In May 1856 she left Liverpool for New York she struck on the
Arklow Bank on the east coast of Ireland and was abandoned.
The passengers and crew were returned to Liverpool.

From a coloured lithograph by N.Currier published in 1854.
C. Parsons, Del.: N.Currier, Lith.
"American Clipper Ships Vo. II" by O.T. Howe & F. Matthews
(Marine Research Society, Salem, Mass. 1926)

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RED JACKET - 2305t 1853 Rockland, Me :
An extreme clipper considered by many as the
most handsome of the American built clippers.
Designed by Samuel H. Pook and built by George
Thomas at Rockland, Maine. Launched in Nov.
1853, she was towed to New Yok for spars and
rigging. Her first voyage in Jan. 1854 was to
   Liverpool for coppering and was in a record
13 days 1 hour 25 minutes (dock to dock).
Chartered by the White Star Line for a round
trip Liverpool-Melbourn she departed in May
1854 and arrived there in 69 days 11 hours. Her
experience of ice on her return voyage to Liverpool
was portrayed in lithographs by J.R. Isaac in
Liverpool and N. Currier in New York. She was
purchased by the White Star line after this voyage and
in the Australian trade until its decline in the middle 60s.
   In 1865, she went to Calcutta and subsequently to other
ports. In 1868, she wa still listed as owned by White Star
but shortly therafter was sold and was put into the timber
trade between Quebec and London.She was still in this
trade in 1882. She ebded her days as a coal hulk at
Cape Verde
   In the ice off Cape Horn on her passage from
Australia to Liverpool,August 1854.

Drawn by J.B. Smith & Son,Brooklyn LI; drawn on
stone by C. Parsons; and published by N. Currier 1855
"Clipper Ships -Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
(The Studio Limited, London 1932)

  SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS - 2421t 1852 East Boston, Mass.
Built by Donald McKay as a speculation. His aim was to build
a clipper that would outsail his earlier triumph FLYING CLOUD..
Handsome and larger and longer than any of Mc Kays previous
clippers she attracted public attention from the time of her
launching. On her maiden voyage from New York to San Francisco
she was loaded with the largest cargo (about 2,950 tons) ever
despatched from the port of New York She lwas delayed by loss
of her main and fore topmasts in a gale in her voyage to San
Francisco. From there she went Honolulu where she obtained a
cargo of whale oil and returned to New York in 88 days. During
this voyage, she attained the highest rate of speed on record -
6215 statute miles in 22 days.. Her second voyage in une 1853 was
to Liverpool in 13 days 22hours and 50 minutes dock to dock. In
Liverpool she was chartered by James Baines' Black Ball line for a
voyage to Melbourne and return. She reached Melbourne in 77 days.
She was sold to the Hamburg firm of J.C. Godeffroy.on her return.
She left Liverpool for a second voyage to Australia in August 1854
under the new owners. She lost a topmast near Cape Horn amnd
when she went on to Shangai she grounded at Woosung. In the next
voyage from Hamburg to China, 11 cew members died of cholera
on the return voyage. In 1859 on a vyage from Hamburg to China
   she ran aground on Pyramid Shoal in the Malacca Straits and was
   a total loss..

   Del. F.Brown Jr., Lith. N. Currier, published by N.Currier1852
"Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
(The Studio Limited, London 1932)

SWEEPSTAKES -1,735t (old measurements) 1853 New York
  An extreme clipper ship built for speed and heavily spared..
Her first voyage from New York in Sept. 1853 was to San francisco
   then to Hongkong, Whampoa nad Macao, and 110 days to New
York. In her second voyage, beginning in Oct. 1854 she went to
  San Francisco, Shanghai.and then London before returning home.
   In her third voyage she went to Shanghai and the back to New
   York, .her fourth voyage from NewYork in May 1857 was to
   Bombay and back Her next voyage in Jan, 1859 wa to San
   Francisco, Honkong and Manila and back to New York.her final
voyage in 1860 took her to Melbourne, toQueensland with a cargo
of sheep, Adelaide and to Batavia via the Sunba Straits; She
stranded for ten hours in the Straits and the cost of repairs after a
survey of the damage were such that the vessel was soldand ended
her career.

   Lith. F.F. Palmer; Lith. N.Currier; publshed by N. Currier 1858
"Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
(The Studio Limited, London 1932)

   THREE BROTHERS - 3,369t 1857 Greenpoint, New York -
Launched in 1857 as the paddle steamer VANDERBILT
   for Cornelius Vanderbily's New York - Havre service.
   Chartered to the Union Army after the outbreak of the
   Civil War. Commissioned in the U.S. Navy in Sept. 1862
as U.S.S. VANDERBILT with a battery of fifteen guns.
She was initially engaged in the seach for Confederate
commerce raiders and later in the blockade of Confederacy.
   She was sold in 1873 to a San Francico company which
removed her machinery and converted her to a sailing ship
with a clipper bow renamed THREE BROTHERS. She
sailed in the grain trade between San Francisco, Le Havre,
Liverpool, and New York. She eventually became coal hulk
and in 1899 was sold for scrap.
"Clipper Ship Three Brothers, 2972 tons
.    The  Largest Sailing Ship in the World"

'The largest sailing ship in the world.'
   Lith. & Pub. by Currier & Ives. Published 1875.
"Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
(The Studio Limited, London 1932)

WITCH OF THE WAVES - 1,494t (old measurements)
  1851 Portsmouth, N.H. An extreme clipper ship. On her
maiden voyage from Boston she went to Sanfrancisco,
then Hongkong, She collected a cargo of tea at
Whampoa (Canton) for London and reached the Downs
  in 90 days. Then back to Boston. Her secon voyage
took her to San Francisco, Hongkong, Singapore,
Calcutta and back to Boston breaking a number of
records on the way. Her third voyage followed the same
route. Then leaving Boston in Sept. 1854 she went to
Batavia and then Amsterdam where she was. chartered
for a return voyage to Batavia. When this was completed
she was purchased by Amsterdam merchants and
renamed ELECTRA. She sailed under the Dutch flag for
many years and was still on the Register in 1871.

Lit. & pub. N. Currier
(The Old Ship Picture Gallery)

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YOUNG AMERICA (1961 tons - old measurements,
1853 New York). An extreme clipper, heavilysparred
and fast. She was built by William H. Webb and was
regarded as his masterpiece. Between 1853 and 1882,
she made 20 passages from New York to San Francisco,
3 from Liverpool and one from Amsterdam. She was
popular with shippers and made a lot of money for her
owners. She was sold to Austrian owners in Late 1882
  and put in the trans-Atlantic trade. In February 1996
she saiked from Delaware Breakwater and was not heard
  from again.

F.F.Palmer Lith.
N. Currier Lith and Publisher 1853
(Vaness Rudisill Stern's Gallery of
Currier & Ives Lithographs)

SOURCES

Clipper Ship Prints Including Other Merchant Sailing Ships
   by N. Currier and Currier & Ives Ives compiled by Fred J. Peters
(Antique Bulletin Publishing Company, New York 1930)

Currier & Ives Prints No. 3: Clipper Ships - Introduction
by Captain Felix Riesenberg (The Studio Limited, London 1932)

Vanessa Rudisill Stern's "Callery of Currier & Ives Lithographs"
http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/-vstern

Royal Museums, Greenwich, London
http;//images.rmg.co.uk

The Sea Its History And Romance IV by Frank C. Bowen
(Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd., London 1926)

The Old Ship Picture Gallery
http://www.photoship.co.uk

American Clipper Ships, Vols, I & II, by O.T. Howe & F. Matthews
(The Marine Research Society. Salem, Mass. 1926)

Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder, Donald McKay
   by Richard C. McKay (G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York
Third Printing 1931)

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