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Hence the highly competitive nature of these trading regattas. They only reduced it when crossing the Cape Horn. James Baines was a passenger clipper ship completely constructed of timber in the 1850s and launched on 25 July 1854 from the East Boston shipyard of the famous ship builder Donald McKay in the United States for the Black Ball Line of James Baines & Co., Liverpool. Our most eminent mechanics consider her stern perfect. Due to their prolific sailing area, the great tea Clippers of the 1860s were the pinnacle of the genre, the fastest sailing trade ships ever built, up to over 16 knots (30 km/h) when the winds were favourable an the sea calm enough. She sailed from Boston the 12th September, 1854. "[2] The clipper was in Portsmouth to load troops bound for India, having been chartered by the British Government to transport 1,000 men of the 97th Regiment. I RECENTLY PURCHASED A Photo framed ,of a three masted ship under full sail ,main sails stacked four high Not to be undone, old Europe made a clipper, through Scottish yard Alexander Hall and Sons, innovating with a new kind of prow, soon to be called Aberdeen clipper bow. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. Record [ edit] 5 for an unframed print of any size. Rivalry between the shipping companies who owned RED JACKET and LIGHTNING was fierce, with large sums of money being . Ann McKim, the first proper modern clipper for most authors, model and hull lines. File : James Baines - Some ships of the clipper ship era, their By knowing the local peculiarities of winds and reading weather, Captains were often able to take the optimal courses. Regarding her lines, stem, and bow, she was not as sharp and hollow-lined as her sister ship Lightning or as "full" as her other sister ship Champion of the Seas. Her first career (Capt. the dining saloon is 35 ft long by 15 ft wide ; the entrance to the deck from the saloon is 2 ft wide and extends across the house, with a door on each side, and opposite the midship door of the saloon is the pantry, which is spacious and fitted up in superior style.