The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
More About the Dreadnaught.


The Dreadnaught, whose nfe was a
race against all contenders, and fnvari-
| ably In her favor. In 1865 sailed from
Honolulu to New Bedford, Mass. 1870
fore her smashing rum of nine days and
seventeen hours. New York TO Queens
| town, she was driven across the Atlantic
| from the Hook to Liverpool in thirteen
! days and eight hours.
This ship was a remarkable creation.
She was built in 1853 at Newbtfyport.
| Mass. by William currier and James T..
Townsend, noted shipwrights Of that
! time. on the order of Gov. Il. d. Nor
gan. Captain Samuels. her master, and
others. She soon became known on ac-
| count of her marvellous speed as the wild
ship of the Atlantic" the .Flying Dutch
4 man., and names of a like character.
| The year after she was launched she
| reached New York from Liverpool as soon
| as the Cunard steamship Canada. which
| carried the English mails and sailed a
| day ahead of her. arrived at Boston.
The Dreadnaught carried on her foretop-
| sail a fiery red cross and by this she
was easily distinguished at sea. BY
measurement she was 200 feet between
| beam. % feet deep; gross tonnage. 7.44s;
net, l.227. Strictly speaking. she was only
| a half clipper, but her additional breadth
gave her the ability to stand UP under
| went noeing deep into the brine.
In 1869. when her fame was at it's
height, she was piled up on Cape Penas.
to the northeastward of the Island OF
| Terra del Fuego, while bound from Liv-
| erpool toward San Francisco. Her loss
| was attended by terrible suffering on the
\ part of the crew of thirty-four, includ-
| Ing one woman uhe stewardess) and
| baby. The wreck occurred on July T. and
| for seventeen days they subsisted on
| sbellfish. They were finally rescued by
| the Norwegian bark General Birch. Many
were frostbitten. and in number of
Instances had to undergo the loss OF
| fingers and toes by anlputation when
| they reached civilization.
| Captain Samuels had given over the
| command of the Dreadnaught three years
| before this to Captain Mayhem. He
| sailed the yacht Henrietta in the ocean
race against the Vest. and the Fleetwing
| in December, 1866 and won an interna-
tional reputation. Shortly after that he
| retired from the sea
The ship James G. Blaine, built by
Donald Mckay Of Boston, had record
| of 420 miles for days work, which was
paralleled by the FLYING Dragon The
latter, bound from sidney New South
| Wales, to Hampton Roads, covered 2,267
miles in seven days. and beat the Eng
fish mails which were transmitted by the
way of the Red Sea and Mediterranean
to New York, by three days.
| With reference to the Flying Cloud $
passage to this port from New York in
| eighty-nine days, eighteen hours, it Is of
record that the clipper Polynesia. which
| was destroyed by fire ir Mission Bay,
ran that vessels latitude in hfty-two
DAYS. II she had had the Polynesia S
| chance she would have arrived out in
| eighty-six days.
A Summary of Quick voys ges.
The Andrew Jackson OF Boston sailed
to San Francisco from New York In W
| DAYS 4 hours: the Northern Light of Bos-
| ton, lome from San francisco in % days
hours; the North Wind of New York
fro m the Downs to Port Philip Head
Australia. 1880 miles. in IS days: the
James Barnes of Boston, from Boston
tc Liverpool in u days, 6 hours; the
| Young America, New York. from Liver
pooi to San Francisco 1880 miles. IN
" days the Euterpe of Rockland, Ne,
from New York to Calcutta. 12.5Oo miles.
| in Is DAYS; the Richard Busted of Bos-
ton. from sydney. n. s. W.. TO Calcutta,
$500 miles. in AZ days, and the bark
Ocean Telegraph of Boston, home from
| Callao 1910 miles, in IS days
A notable trying-out of speed was
race between the ships John Gtlpin; Fly
ing Fish, Trade Wind and Wild Pigeon,
ali Of New York They left the latter
port In company bound for San Fran.
cisco. and 81 days later the first med
| head ed into the bay ten hours anead OF
the Flying Fish. The Trade Wind took
| I02 DAYS To make the passage and the
| Wild Pigeon us.
The writer has in mind the work Of
other American clipper ships too numer-
Gus to recount. and some English ones.
| as well 4 smart little craft was the
| Aberdeen tea ship, afterward the bark
| Thermopylae. She had the heels OF
yacht. and put some top scores to her
| account She was built in 1868, and meas
ured ~ feet In length. IS feet in breadth,
| and II feet in depth. She went from Inv
erpool to Melbourne in IS days; sydney
to Shanghai in IS days; Foo Chow to
London In 50 days. and from Cape Fiat
terry to Hongkong by the way of the Ha-
| waiian Islands in 20 days. On this last
passage she had } days of head winds.
There was the Nabob of Boston, OF
| graceful memory which made the port
| Of Rangoon seventy-fve days out of New
| York. Although American sailing SHIPS
have dcterioriatcd in number and neet-
ness. they still hold the lead IN the lat'er r
| quality. Occasionally one FORCES out OF
the ruck and recalls the past by making
a passage of merit. About six years ago
the Henry B. Hyde of New York came
| from that port to this city in 10? days.
! Another particularly good bit of going
was that of the S. d. Carleton of ROCK
| port, Me-. in 1892 OH a passage to New
| York from California. She arrived of the
! Horn in 10 days, the Platter in 30, ana
| reached her destination in 100. after
| spending IS rolling around in winter
| gale between the Gulf Stream and Hat
| teras.
ter ships have, always been on tne A. A.
| lantic Coast but within the past ilve
| or six years a movement has set In that
| has changed the registry of the small
feet remaining to places on the Pacinc
| seahoard Some are being used IN the
| Alaskan cannery business, some carry
Australian Goals others go coasting.
and rarely one gets as far away as the
| West Coast or Cape Town or China
mort with a cargo of lumber.
|