page_title: Ann McKim (clipper)
section_title: Voyages
hierarchical_section_title: Ann McKim (clipper) / Voyages
caption_attribution_description: English: Ann McKim ship for sale from Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 27, 30 January 1850 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2
context_page_description: Ann McKim was one of the first true clipper ships. The opening of new Treaty ports in the East in the early 1840s eased an access of the US merchants to China, which demanded the ships that could move cargo faster than then-traditional slow-moving, high-capacity merchant ships. The Ann McKim was one of the ships that had answered the demand in the early years and sailed between New York and China in 1840-1842, until newer and faster cargo-carriers, such as the nearly 600-ton clipper Houqua, the 598-ton China packet Helena, Witch of the Wave, and Rainbow, with the last two built expressly to outperform the Ann McKim started dominating the shipping world of the US-China trade and the Ann McKim was shifted back to the South American trade routes.
context_section_description: She was ready to her maiden voyage on 30 August 1833 under the command of Captain Walker. She brought 3,500 barrels of floor to Callao, Peru on the 3rd of December, after a passage of 95 days. Ann McKim remained on the South American coast for some time, and it was not until April 1934 when she sailed  back to Cape Henry in 72 days and was once more lying in the port of Baltimore on 16 June 1834. In 1837 she set one of her records on the South American trade, sailing in just 59 days from Valparaiso to the Virginia Capes of Chesapeake Bay and in 42 days from off Cape Horn to Chesapeake Bay.
  In 1838 she made the passage from Coquimbo, Chile to Baltimore in 60 days and in 53 days from Valparaiso to Baltimore, establishing a new record of her career on this route. The same year she sailed under Captain Martin's command to China and back home in 150 days, arriving  to New York on 23 November 1840. On her second voyage she reached China in 92 days and the return trip lasted 88 days. In 1842, she set in a new record of 79 days, sailing from New York via Java Head to Anyer, Indonesia. Her return trip home to New York in 1843 was 96 days. As the faster clippers started dominating the routes to and from China the Ann McKim wasn't able to compete with them and was brought back to South America. She was sold at Valparaiso to a Chilean owners in 1847.
  Under the Chilean flag, she arrived to San Francisco on 19 January 1849 from Valparaiso, touching at Guayaquil, Ecuador on the 24th of December 1948. This voyage lasted 51 days (51 days at sea from Valparaiso; 29 days from Guayaquil). Her next voyage from San Francisco to Valparaiso was a chocking one as Captain James Van Pelt didn't stock enough water on the ship and ten of her passengers suffered from dehydration upon her arrival to the destination on 10 October 1849.
caption: Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 27, 30 January 1850 — Advertising the McKim for sale.
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