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following the Sovereign, excited great
interest and the captain was promised
all sorts of awards if he won the race.
The results were-Great Britain, sixty
five days; Sovereign, seventy DAYS;
! Gauntlet, seventy-nine days. On leav-
! ing Liverpool, the Sovereign drew
| twenty-three feet ten inches, being
| loaded as deeply as a sand barge She
ran 1875 knots in four days and in
twelve days, 1875. Was thirty-one days
to the line and in fact had light winds
the greater part of the passage,-not
one squal being mentioned and the
main skysail not being started for six
| ty-two days. Returning she left Mel
bourne about January 25, 1854, arriving
in London in eighty-four days. Went
on the berth for Australia again, and
reached Sydney, October %, eighty-four
days. During the early part of this
voyage, she promised to surpass all
previous performances. On the fortieth
day out, she was off the Cape and but
for a succession of easterly gales would
have made the passage in an unprece-
dented short time. Her best days run
was 40 knots or about AIS miles and
log shows occasional bursts of speed
as high as twenty-five knots. On Sep
TENDER 8th, a sudden storm carried
away all three topmasts with every
thing attached, but in six days she was
again on her way under jury rig.
Particulars of the subsequent career
of this vessel would be of interest but.
unfortunately, details are lacking be-
yond the fact that she went into, and
continued mainly in, the trade between
China and England. On August 6, 1850,
she went aground on the Pyramid
Shoal Straits of Malacca, but three
masted schooner sent to her aid from
Singapore was the means of hauling her
off. Through some disaffection of the
crew, however, the ship did not get un-
der weigh soon enough and squat
struck her. driving her ON shore again.
She filed and proved a total loss, al
though the bulk of the cargo is said to
have been saved, though damaged.
Thus ended the existence of one of the
most popular of the American clipper
feet and in all likelihood, we neer will
see her like again.
She had been built by Donald Mac
Kay, East Boston, in June, 1852, on a
;peculation and sold for $4,000. Dlmen-
;ions, length of keel, 245 feet; Of deck,
,5S feet; over ALL 2GS feet. Extreme
breadth of beam, forty-four and one
lalf feet; depth of hold, twenty-three
md one-half feet; Z42l tons, old meas
lrement, very sharp, with long clean
un and altogether finely proportioned
md very strongly constructed; fore
mast, forty-one inches diameter. and
igFlty-nine and three-quarters feet
ong. including sixteen feet head; fore
ard, twenty-five inches diameter. eigh-
Y feet long; mainmast, forty-two
inches in diameter. and nfnety-two and
feet long; main yard,
wenty-four inches in diameter and
inety feet long; carried main skysail-
IN her first trip to San Francisco she
arried $3.50 tons of cargo, and one
ears stores and her freight and pas
enger list is said to have footed ND
IS. 273.S2. Her crew was reported COM
osed of 103 men and boys. there being
lightly able bodied seamen aboard,
1ough subsequently their hands were
educed to some forty-fve or fifty, when
he was considered shoTthanded. She
eceived $50. 900 for her trip from Homo
1lu to New York and is said to have
btained seven pounds sterling per ton,
n her first voyage to Australia