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Title: The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews 1843-1869
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Clark, Arthur Hamilton, 1841-1922
Subjects: Clipper ships
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ong and successful career as ship-owner andmerchant in the China trade. It cannot be said that the stornoway was a copyof any American model, as a comparison of dimen-sions will clearly show. Comparing her measure-ments with those of the American clipper, barqueRace Horse, of 512 tons register, built by SamuelHall at East Boston in the same year, we find: Length Breadth Depth Storyioway 157 ft. 8 in. 25 ft. 8 in. 17 ft. 8 in. Race Horse 125 ft. 30 ft. 16 ft. Thus the Btornoioay, while she exceeded the RaceHorse by 32 feet 8 inches in length and by 1 foot8 inches in depth, yet had 4 feet 4 inches lessbreadth; and here began a contest, which extendedover so many years, of breadth against length anddepth. There can be no doubt that the Stornowaywith more beam and the Race Horse with morelength and depth, would have been faster, but atthe same time considerably larger vessels.^ 1 The various systems of calculating the tonnage of ves-sels which were in force in Great Britain prior to 1854,
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Competition in the China Trade 199 The Stornoway was commanded by CaptainRichard Robinson, and on her first voyage she madethe passage from the Downs to Java Head in 80days, to Hongkong in 102 days, and from Hong-kong to London in 103 days. These were at thattime the quickest passages between these ports thathad ever been made by a British vessel. In 1851 Alexander Hall & Co. built the Chinatea-clipper Chrysolite^ of 471 tons, for Taylor &Potter of Liverpool; length 149 feet 3 inches,breadth 29 feet, depth 17 feet. As will be seenthis vessel approached more nearly the proportionsof the Race Horse, having 8 feet 5 inches less lengththan the Stornoway, with 3 feet 4 inches morebreadth, and 8 inches less depth. She made herfirst passage from Liverpool to Canton, under thecommand of Captain Anthony Enright, in 102 days,and came home in 104 days. She also made the (see Appendix iv.,) gave the breadth measurement apreponderating influence upon the result, and as taxation,port, and l

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