Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 49

Ship Cloud Volatrice", he/she built 1851;  tonnage 1782;  374 miles in one day;  from
New York in San Francisco in the 18 hours of 89 days;  in one day she did 433-1/2
miles, but reducing this to precisely 24 hours, she made 427-1/2 miles.

Ship "Comet", he/she built 1851;  tonnage 1836;  beautiful model and the good ship;
fact 332 knots in 24 hours and 1512 knots in 120 consecutive hours.

"Sovereign of the Seas", he/she built 1852;  tonnage 2421;  course 6,245 miles in 22
days;  436 miles in one day;  for four days his/her average was 398 miles.

"Lightning", he/she built 1854;  tonnage 2084;  runs 436 miles in 24 hours, while drawing
22 feet;  from England to Calcutta with troops, in 87 days, striking other
vases that sail from from 16 to 40 days;  from Boston to Liverpool in 13 days
20 hours.

"James Baines", he/she built 1854, tonnage 2515;  from Boston to Liverpool in 12
days 6 hours.

Three of these ships came from the historical enclosures of Donald McKay, to New
York, one of the most famous of American ship-builders. The figures show
the consolidates profit in ransom and the speed that have characterized the job of American
ship-builders in those days. Then the United States was in truth a
maritime nation. Every boy knew the ransoms and record of the great ships,
and every magnificent cutter had his/her anxious partisans. External trade was
active. Dealers served the great profit on cargoes as China, and speed was a
first element in the value of a ship. In 1840 the gold discovery in
California added a new application for ocean to send;  the trip around the
You gore, already the ground of common ownership enough for whalemen and men taken part in Asian work,
you/he/she was taken by tens of thousand of adventurers. Then it came to the gold news
in Australia, and again applications were resounding for American more rapid
ships. All the nations of Europe were buyers to our shipyards and our
builders started seriously to consider if the provisioning of lumber is able
holds out. The enclosures of Maine and Massachusetts sent far in the fields for white