Age of Sail Merchant Ships of the United States - Rainbow, Memnon, USS Nightingale, Sunny South, John Gilpin, Flying Cloud, Carrier Pigeon (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Rainbow, Memnon, USS Nightingale, Sunny South, John Gilpin, Flying Cloud, Carrier Pigeon, Surprise, Great Republic, James Baines, Star of Oregon, Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade, Tonquin, Sea Serpent, White Swallow, Stag Hound, Witch of the Wave, King Philip shipwreck, Herald of the Morning, Red Jacket, Champion of the Seas, Sweepstakes, Hope, Blue Jacket, Syren, Adventure, Young America, USS Onward, USS Ino, Kingfisher, Antelope of Boston, Golden West, Ganges, Anglona, Northern Light, Lightning, Sea Witch, Pilgrim, Witchcraft, Golden Fleece, Westward Ho , Cremorne, Thatcher Magoun, Blessing of the Bay, Columbia Rediviva, Loriot, Paul Jones, N.B. Palmer, Sovereign of the Seas, Comet, Mary Robinson, Zenobia, Challenger, Ticonderoga, Louisa, Henry Roop, Resolution. Excerpt: The Rainbow, launched in New York in 1845 to sail in the China trade for the firm Howland & Aspinwall, was the first extreme clipper ship. Rainbow is identified as the first extreme clipper ship, because she was the first clipper ship built based upon the ideas of John W. Griffiths with a design intended to sacrifice cargo capacity for speed. His ideas encompassed a lengthening of the bow above water, a drawing out and sharpening of the forward body, and the greatest breadth further aft. "She was built to a new model at the initiative of the American naval architect J.W. Griffeths who is said to have based his design on the owner's previous ship the Ann McKim." "In 1845, John Willis Griffiths built the fast ship Rainbow and followed it in the next year with the even faster Sea Witch. Both vessels would have tremendous impact on merchant hull design. Sea Witch, in fact, had more influence on the configuration of fast vessels than any ship built in the United States. Vessels built in general accordance with the Sea Witch model were known as clippers, ...