The Republican journal., 1908-01-23

D6rlOrl(V over all QUIET Sailing fOoo0lS'
Miles Days
Norfolk to Honolulu $4,000 81
Norfolk to Ambray Pass 14,4sO y
New York to Java Head $4,000 ~
Java to Chill il,6OO 81
Chill to Philadelphia 10000 20
Chilli to Baltimore 10, 100 70
Across Indian Ocean $500 70
Equator to Hatteras 3,100 Is
In addition to these records the
Phelps has rounded Cape Horn from
the Atlantic seaboard in sixty-seven
DAYS. Sailing vessels which make this
voyage in 125 days are said to make
fast trips.-Exchange
After looking over the passages of
the old time American clipper ships
and some of the passages of the Ameri-
can ships of modern times one is rather
doubtful about the yarn of the marvel
Gus passages of the Bath-bui steel
ship Erskine NJ. Phelps which have
been going the rounds of the press for
the past month, emanating from Capt.
Graham. the commander of that ship.
1t is very evident that the newspaper
man who visited the Phelps in Seattle
or San Francisco had his interview
with the sailor boys in the forecastle of
the ship. There is no necessity in this
case for quoting the passages OF the
clipper ships back in the SOS, as the
passages of modern ships at different
times have excelied those of the Phelps.
The passage of the Phelps from Chilli
to Philadelphia in 50 days was left in
the shade by the Belfast, Maine, built
bark C. P. Dixon, back in the SOS,
when the bark was commanded by
Capt. Frank L. Carver of Searsport,
who made the passage from lqulqul to
New York in "a days. The ship Jere
miah Thompson, built in Williamsburg,
N. Y. in 1854, of 1890 tons, while in
command of Capt. Kennedy in the
latter part of the COS, made the passage
from Callao to New York in rs days
and would probably have towed the
Phelps the entire distance from Cailao
to New York at that time and made
the passage which the Phelps did IN 80
days. The ship Hope, commanded by
the late Capt. Lebbeus Curtis of Sears
port in the 70's, made the passage from
New York to Calao in 81 days, and the
Hope on that passage had moderate
winds the entire passage although the
winds were fair most of the time. The
iron ship Title E. Starbuck, command
ed by Capt Eben Curtis of Searsport,
made the passage from New York to
Yokohama, Japan, in 112 days only to
be beaten five days later by the ship
Selkirk, Capt Grove, in 107 days. The
Starbuck made the passage from Phila-
delphia to Portland, Ore, in 107 days,
from Havre to New York in Is days,
and for seventeen consecutive years in
command of Capt Curtis her work was
far superior to that of the Phelps. The
Phelps record of IS days from the
equator to Cape Hatteras is very easily
side tracked by the Bath-built ship
Henry B. Hyde, commanded by Capt.
John G. Pendleton of Searsport, who
made the passage in the COS from San
Francisco to New York in IS days.
On that passage the Hyde made the
run from Cape Horn to the equator in
10 days and from the equator to Sandy
Hook in 10 days, making the passage
from Cape Horn to Sandy Hook in 50
DAYS. In the Phelps article printed
above it is stated that the passage was
made by the Phelps in IS days from an
Atlantic port to Cape Horn and 1875
days was considered a fast passage.
Capt. Andrew S. Pendleton of Sears
port, while in command of the ship
Aryan, the last wooden ship built in
the United States, made the passage
from Cape Henry to Cape Horn in IS
DAYS, which he considered very fair
passage, but nothing extra. The ship
Brown Bros, commanded by Capt.
Daniel S. Goodell, Jr, of Searsport,
sailed from San Francisco Jan. IA, 1882,
and arrived at Havre Apr, 20, 1882,
discharged and sailed May Goth, arriv-
ing at San Francisco Sept. 26th, making
the round trip in months and II days.
The ship Henry 3. Hyde, commanded
by Capt. Phineas Pendleton, sailed
from San Francisco Oct 27, 1885, and
arrival at TjvernOol Feb. |. 1886. max
ing the passage in 95 days. The run
from the equator in the Atlantic to
Liverpool was made in 20 days. In all
the passages made by this ship from
New YORK to San Francisco while own
ed in New York and commanded by
Captains Phineas Pendleton, John q.
Pendleton, Joshua B. Nichols, James
P. Butman, Theodore p. Colcord of
Searsport and Capt. David Scribner OF
Thomaston was made from New York