Lines of the Extreme Clipper Sunny South, built at Williamsburg, New York, in 1854. She became the 

 slaver Emanuela. Taken off the half-model in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. 



particularly in the America. The clipper was rela- 

 tively small, some 700 tons, and represented perhaps 

 the most extreme design of all the American clipper 

 ships built in the 1840's and 1850's. The vessel was 

 marked by a very long and extremely fine entrance 

 and a fine run, long for a ship-rigged vessel. She also 

 had much dead rise amidships and was beautiful 

 and yachtlike. Her figurehead was a gilded sea 

 serpent carried the length of her curved trails, which 

 were much like those of the yacht America, and the 

 head was built up in the same manner as well. Like 

 many of the China clippers and the coastal packets 

 running into the Gulf of Mexico, the Sunny South 

 was armed to repel pirates. It is worthy of comment 

 that this beautiful vessel had the reputation of being 

 extremely fast when in company of other ships, yet 

 she made no record passages and she was not a 

 financial success. She was eventually sold in 1858-59 

 to Havana where, under the name Emanuela, she 

 became known as the fastest slaver out of that port. 

 On Aug. 10, 1860, the Emanuela, fl>'ing the Chilean 



flag, was captured in the Mozambique Channel by 

 H. M. steamship Brisk, when the wind failed the 

 clipper. When taken, the Emanuela had 850 slaves 

 aboard. Unlike many slavers taken by the Royal 

 Navy, the Emanuela was not immediately destroyed; 

 she appears to have been employed as a storeship for 

 a few years at the Cape of Good Hope, after which 

 she is supposed to have been broken up or burned. 



The Sunny South was one of the few ships that 

 actually had the feature that clipper ships were 

 popularly supposed to have — a long, sharp, and 

 hollow load line at the bow. She appears to have 

 been the only American clipper ship that had her 

 forefoot much cut away and had curvature for most 

 of the length of her keel. Like some of the ships of 

 her period she had a short, low quarterdeck and 

 deep bulwarks. In appearance she resembled a large 

 schooner hull of an improved Baltimore clipper model. 



An example of the less radical clipper model was 

 the Pook-designed Fearless built at East Boston, 

 Massachusetts, in 1853 by A. and G. T. Sampson. 



Lines of the Clipper Ship Fearless built at East Boston, Massachusetts, in 1853. She was designed by Samuel 

 Pook, Jr. Taken off the half-model in the Weld family collection. 



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