Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-04-11
With FAMOUS SHIP
ON MAIDEN TRIP
Honolulu May Remember
Dreadnaughts' First
Voyage.
JAMES ENRIGHT AND
OLD YANKEE CLIPPERS
Waterfront StatiStiClan Keeps POSteC
on Marine Records --- Scrap
Book Covers Half a
Century,

There is a man in Honolulu who, as
= boy, forty-three years ago, made his
first trip to sea aboard the famous AM
erican clipper ship Dreadnaught, when
that remarkable vessel made her maid
en- voyage from New York to Liverpool
covering a distance of 3Ol7 miles in IL
days and hours, and that man Is
James EnriEht, who has retired from
a life on the ocean wave to enjoy the
balance Of his days ashore in the
Paradise of the Pacific.
James Enright was born in ireland
in 1851 and became citizen of the
United States in 1863. 1t was in 1853.
when the Dreadnaught was launched
that Enright, then u lad of twelve
years. made the trip with the speedy
clipper across the Atlantic.
She was a magnificent ship and En-.
right never tires of telling of her aC-
complishments. Today he can tell Of
her every grace and beauty; of her
great single topsails; of the fiery red
cross on her foretOpsail, and how tho
name of the vessel stood out bold and
big on that snow-white spread at
duck.
The clipper ship Dreadnaught was
built in 1859 at Newburyport. Mass,
BY William Currier and James Town.
send, on the order OF Governor L. n
Morgan. Captain Samuels, her master,
and others.
Her most remarkable trip across the
Atlantic was accomplished the year
she was launched, 1860, when she ran
from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, q
distance OF 276O miles, in 9 days and II
hours. Her best days run was 1861
knots.
The Dreadnaught was a wonderful
ship. She was often called the wild
ship OF the Atlantic" and similar
rames. In 1860 she beat a Cunard
steamship, the Canada, across the At
lantic by whole day.
This famous vessel was 200 feet be-
tween perpendiculars and 2l7 feet on
deck. She had a beam of 10 feet and
was 90 feet deep. Her gross tonnage
was l443; her net tonnage, 1927. She
was trifle broad for clipper ship,
but this helped her to stand up under
a press of canvas where vessel OF
lesser breadth would dig her nose deep
In the foam.
In 1865 the Dreadnaught sailed from
Honolulu to New Bedford, Mass, a dis.
lance of 1870 miles, in so days. Now
vessels would think nothing of occupy
ing from 100 to $50 days on such voy.
age.
Ten years after she was launched, in
1869, when the whole maritime world
was marveling at the records Of the
remarkable clipper, the Dreadnaught
was wrecked on Cape Penas, to the
northeastward Of the island OF Terra
del Fuego, while bound from Liverpool
for San Francisco. She carried a crew
including the stewardess and her child.
The Dreadnaught was piled up on
lndepe Day, July I. For over
two weeks the crew managed to keep
soul and body together on shell fish,
suffering terribly from the cold.
The Norwegian bark. General Birch.
rescued the castaways, however and
once more they saw their homes. Num-
bers OF the unfortunates were com.
PEELED to suffer the loss of fingers and
toes by amputation, as the result OF
being frost-bitten.
James Enrlght is a statistician. He
carries in his head the record runs OF
all the old clipper ships between tho
Atlantic and Pacific coast ports OF
North America. He can also tell OF
what the clippers have done on other