Title: Mary Patten's voyage
Description: A sailor recalls how the eighteen-year-old wife of Captain Joshua Patten took charge of the clipper ship Neptune's Car during a race from New York to San Francisco in 1856.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Neptune's Car (Clipper ship), Sea stories, Children's fiction
People: Joshua A. Patten (1826 or 7-1857), Mary Anne Brown Patten (1837-1861)