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In the middle of the nineteenth century American clipper ships astounded the maritime world with their amazingly swift passages to and from faraway seaports, bringing back exotic and valuable cargoes to tea, spices, and silk. Of all those clippers, only one remains: the Maine built Snow Squall, whose bow section was rescued from the remote Falkland Islands by the Snow Squall project in the 1980's.
Table of Contents:
The White-Winged Chariots of Commerce
The Brothers Butler Build a Ship
The Shipowner
Maiden Voyage: 1852
Second Voyage: California, China, and England (by way of Hawaii)
Third Voyage: Australia, Java, and China
Triumph and Disaster: The Voyages of 1856 - 58
To Shanghai Again and Again 1858 - 61
Twice to Melbourne and Beyond, and Two Bad Scares: 1861 -63
The Fatal Voyage: 1864
301 pp., hardcover
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