The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-11


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out was 16i nautical miles per dav.
The completed passage took 40
days.
From San Francisco she went 20
Liverpool in command OF Can't.
chatfield. and was then sold TO
Sears of Boston and placed in COM
mand of Capt. Knowles.
From 1870 TO 1855 she piled IN
the New York San Francisco-Liver-
pool trade and earned a smar,
name.
She once lls73-74) made the
passage from New York to San
Francisco in "a days. one Of the
swiftest.
In 1878 she set n record
never equailed--San Francisco
to Sydney In SIS days.
During her remarkable career
numerous master mariners had
command OF the GLORY OF the
Seas" among them Capt. Nc
Laughlin t1s7e) and Capt. Free
man 1855. Also Capt. John G..
Farrell. whose son became presi-
dent of the u. S. Steel corporation
and kept the ship "Tusitala" voyag-
ing from New York to Puget Sound
until recently. That vessel, by the
way, is now a training ship for
the U. S. maritime commission.
In 1880 the GLORY Of the Seas"
was beached in a gale attempting
to cross the Dublin bar. but was
later pulled clear unframed.
She came TO the Pacific coast
In 1885 again, but this time she
never again left.
Her voyages between Puget
Sound, San Francisco and Alaska
were numerous but spasmodic, and
for time she even carried coal.
From December, 1882. until
February. 1885, she was laid up at
San Francisco, and from 1904 until
1906 she was laid up at Oakland.
Then somebody had the bright
idea she could be short-rigged into
floating cannery that would cruise
around and catch its own fish,
which idea proved impractical
forthwith.
Then Tacoma entered the pic
ture, and the Glacier Fish Co.
bought the "Glory of the Seas and
converted her into a floating cold
storage plant.
For many years thereafter
she lay at their wharf. on the
tideflats nearby the ST. Paul
lumber mill.
In view of the grand old ships
character and record, her ultimate
disposal was a shame. On May
10, 1928. she was towed to the
beach at Endolyne a few miles
away, and burned for the metal
in her bones at the venerable age
of 81 years.
Besides her own personal his
tory, the GLORY of the Seas" stood
for a great deal more.
Not only was she the last of
McKay's marvellous sailing YES
sells, but the working model from
which she was built is one of only
three still preserved.
Those models entailed n
revolutionary principle. and
are the tangible turning point
in maritime sciences. Those
little wooden half-models con-
tanned the secret Of Americas
success as n searfarlng ma
ton.
The model OF McKay's "Stag
Hound" is now in the museum OF
tht Boston Marine society. that OF
the colossal Great Republic" was
taken abroad to Saxony in 1855
by Mckay's daughter.
The only other one remaining e
posterity fthey were jealousy
guarded and destroyed by the de,
signer) went from McKay's hand,
TO George C. Young. who made
the spars for the GLORY of thu
Seas" who in turn gave II to Al
bert Low. her rigger.
A Mr.. Connolly got It upon tn
death OF Young, and his son
George w. Connolly. knew of IL
existence and at his fathers dealt
made successful search for 1t II
the debris Of the old sail-loft. III
kept it in his store in Boston 70
many years.
In 1928 1t was purchased b,
Richard c. Mckay. descendan
OF the great builder.