page_title: Flying Cloud (clipper)
section_title: British clipper to Australia and New Zealand, New Brunswick timber trade
hierarchical_section_title: Flying Cloud (clipper) / British clipper to Australia and New Zealand, New Brunswick timber trade
context_page_description: Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.
  Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.
context_section_description: In 1862, Flying Cloud was sold to the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, sailing under British colors without change of name, and was soon traveling between the mother country and Australia and New Zealand. Her latter years were spent in the log trade between Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
caption: Drawing of Flying Cloud from a 1913 book on clipper ships
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