The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-06-20
NOTED CLIPPERS
MADE FAST TRIPS
Voyages of 0Id-Time Sailing
Ships Recalled.

RECORD OF THE RED JACKET
Built In the Fifties, She Made the Run
to Liverpool in 10 Days I Hour and
Is Minutes-Sea Racer Given Great
Ovation on Arrival in Port-Doubt
Cast on Record Claimed for the
Dreadnousht-other Famous voy-
ages.
Much testimony has been offered Of
late to show that the New York clip
per ship Dreadnought never made the
run credited to her by some writer's
8 days and II hours from Sandy
Hook lightship to Daunt's Rock,
Queenstown, but there is little need Of
evidence or argument on that ques-
ton, for few who know much of ships
and the sea have ever believed that
the famous clipper sailed that fast.
While they are at 1t, however, the
sea sharps might as well tell who did
make the transatlantic, or New York
Liverpool record, If Captain Samuels
didn't. Downeasters are inclined to
award the great distinction to the clip
per Red jacket, built at Rockland, Me-,
in the f1fties. The Red Jacket has
well-attested record of 10 days hour
and Is minutes from Sandy Hook
lightship to Liverpool pier head, and 1t
Is not recalled that anything faster has
been claimed for sailing vessel.
LiverpooIians Excited.
1t is related that the Collins line
steamer, which left New York day
of two after the Red Jacket, arrived in
Liverpool one Sunday afternoon and
brought the news that the Yankee clip
per was just astern. Those were
sporting days in the clipper service,
and there was as much interest in the
performance Of fast ships as there now
is in any other time records, big
money often being wagered on sailing
contests. :.
When the news spread along the
Liverpool harbor front the people
rushed in thousands to the docks, and
every pier was black with the specta-
tors awaiting the arrival Of the new
sea racer. Outside the port tugs had
offered to tow the clipper, but the ship
was going so fast that they couldn't
keep the hawsers 'taut, and so had to
give It up. The Red Jacket swept into
the Mersey with everything drawing,
a spectacle that brought
cheers from the assembled multitudes.
Then, as tugs came alongside to dock
her, the ships master gave all hands
a thrill they had least expected-he
ignored the tugs, and, throwing the
Red Jacket up into the wind, actually
backed her alongside the pier, while
the crew took in sail with a celebrity |
that seemed like magic to the spec
tatOrs
The Red jacket was a ship of about |
$500 tons, old measurement had
very long floor, like Penobscot river
lumberman's batteau, and could carry
a tremendous spread and also point
high. She carried as figurehead the
image of the Indian chief Red Jacket,
carved from log Of pump
kin pine. She prospered finely in the
clipper service, was later sold to Eng
ish account and sailed in the Austria
ian trade, and at last accounts, after
some years of carrying lumber from
The st. Lawrence to the United King
lom, was dismantled and used as q
coal hulk at Malta.
The Dreadnought's Run.
In some records the DreadnOught is
with run Of 13 days and
eight hours from New York to Liver
pool, and 1t is well authenticated that
she ran from Honolulu to New Bed
lord, 1910 miles, in 50 days. She
was built at Newburyport, Mass, in
1853 by William Currier and James
T. Townsend to the order of Gov. e. d.
Morgan, Captain Samuels Of Brooklyn,
Ter first master, and others. Her fame
vas as wide as the seas and she soon
acquired the name of a racer-"the
Wild ship Of the Atlantic" sailors used
o call her. She carried on her fore
'ail fiery red cross by which she
vas easily identified at sea. She was
700 feet between perpendiculars, PIT
eet on deck, 40 feet beam, 26 feet
lepth Of hold; gross tonnage, LAB;
let, 1927 Strictly speaking she was
My half clipper, but her unusual
'eam gave her the ability to stand up
lnder press Of sail that would send
full clipper blowing under. She was
ost on July 4, 1869, while on voyage
rom Liverpool to San Francisco, be-
ng piled up on Cape Penas, to the
ortheastward Of TERRA del Fuego. AT
hat time she was commanded by Cap
ain Mayhem. sFa8 @a GAIA
The ship Andrew jackson Of Boston