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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 29, 1909. 
Greenwich, published by J. D. Potter, London, 
in 1873, a standard work of the period used by 
the cadets of the Royal Navy, we find ample 
corroboration of the great speed of the old 
Australian clippers, and reference is made by 
the eminent author to the particular perform¬ 
ances of the two crack ships, James Baines and 
Red Jacket, referred to above and recorded in 
the Field of April 9, 1887. 
“About the parallel of 50°,’’ says Mr. Laugh¬ 
ton, writing of the constant winds of the south¬ 
ern seas between the Cape of Good Hope and 
South America, “it is found as a rule to\ be 
blowing half a gale of wind, and this not only 
south of the Atlantic, but all round the world. 
This is the wind which is so advantageous to 
stout-built, well-found Australian clippers. If 
they are strong enough to bear the boisterous 
weather of the high latitudes, they are almost 
sure of a wind that will carry them along at the 
highest possible rate of sailing; and the runs of 
some of the English and American crack ships, 
in making their easting, seem scarcely credible. 
The celebrated clipper Red Jacket, for instance, 
on her passage from Liverpool to Melbourne in 
1856 ran from 72° 26' E. to 134°'38' E. in eight 
days, being an average of 334 nautical miles 
(knots) a day. This was in July, the depth of 
winter, and the abstract of her log shows what 
terrible weather she had. Gales, squalls, 
storms, rain, snow, sleet, hail, ‘the entire fore 
part of the ship covered with ice,’ these were 
the things she had to encounter; the wear and 
tear of the ship, the risk of spars and life, was 
the price she had to pay for making this almost 
unparalleled run. Another Liverpool clipper, 
James Baines, on the 17th of June, 1856, ran 
from 43'’ 31' S., 106'’ 15' E._, to 42° 47'.S., 115'’ 
54' E., a distance of 420 miles; and this is the 
abstract of her log for that day: ‘Winds, W. 
to S.W. First part, breeze freshening; at 6 
p. M., wind S.W. and freshening; at 8:30 p. m., 
in all starboard stunsails, ship going 21 knots, 
with main skysail set; midnight, fresh gale and 
fine clear night; 8 a. m., wind and weather the 
same; noon, less wind, attended with snow 
squalls.’ These instances, though exceptional 
as runs, are by no means so in the weather; 
they are exceptional merely because there are 
but few ships afloat of the capabilities of Red 
Jacket or James Baines, or which have their 
masts so stayed that they could carry main 
skysails under such circumstances.” The last 
lines of the quotation from Mr. Laughton’s 
work, of course, reveal the real reason for the 
record speed attained by these clippers. 
Modern sailing ships are much larger, but 
have they ever logged the speed of the old 
clippers? Red Jacket, of Liverpool, was, we 
believe, 2035 tons. A modern seven-masted 
schooner was built at Maine, U. S. A., to carry 
5,500 tons. Potosi, a five masted ship built at 
Bremen, 394 feet long, is 6,150 tons. France, a 
five-masted ship, was 3,624 tons, and carried 
49.000 square feet of canvas. Are the new ships, 
with all their size, faster' than the old? 
The ships James Baines and Red Jacket were 
wonderfully well matched. On one occasion 
they were chartered to carry a regiment to 
India at the time of the Mutiny. Sailing from 
England on the same day, each with half the 
regiment, they arrived at Calcutta together, 
never having sighted one another from the time 
they left the British coast until they brought 
up in the Hooghly. 
The log books and records of the clippers of 
half a century back are most likely still in ex¬ 
istence—buried perhaps in the archives of some 
of the old Liverpool shipping firms—and it 
would be interesting to publish further accurate 
details of the immense speed attained by sail¬ 
ing vessels in bygone days. Where can they be 
obtained? From the firm of Dombey and 
Son, in the city? From old Sol Gills or Cap¬ 
tain Cuttle? But we fear the Wooden Mid¬ 
shipman. and his shop, has long since gone, 
though when Dickens left him we know he was 
“more on the alert than ever, being newly 
painted from his cocked hat to his buckled 
shoes; and above him, in golden characters,” 
shone refulgent, the names of those immortal 
mariners. 
A correspondent of the Field added this 
record: 
“Having read with interest in the current 
number of the Field particulars of speed and 
distance covered by sailing ships, I may say 
that in December, 1875, I was serving on board 
the full-rigged ship Jura, of Liverpool, Capt. 
Russell, 1.198 tons register, from Greenock 
to Calcutta. This was her maiden voyage, and, 
when running her easting down, she was re¬ 
ported to have sailed 420 miles from non to 
noon. Probably her owners, Messrs. Sand- 
bach. Tinne, and Co., Cook street, Liverpool, 
could confirm this if applied to, and supply 
more interesting details of the above and other 
ships owned by them. 
“Doubtless this has been exceeded by many 
of the tea-clippers now superseded by steam. It 
must be borne in mind that these ships were 
often deeply laden with cargo, which it was not 
possible to trim at sea. On the voyage in 
question, the ship being just off the stocks, no 
one knew her qualities or vagaries.” 
New Boats for Day Use. 
The Electric I.aunch Company, of Bayonne, 
has recently shipped to David C. Whitney, of 
Detroit, Michigan, a 35-foot Elco-Peerless gaso¬ 
lene express launch, named Cythera IL, which 
Mr. Whitney intends to use on the Detroit 
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and his office in the city. Cythera IL easily 
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Lawrence River. This boat in her speed trial 
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American Boat too Fast for Thames. 
The London police recently lost their appear¬ 
ance of unemotional calm when a 26-foot 
Mullins steel motor boat made a speed trial 
run over a measured course on the Thames. 
The high rate of speed developed caused a great 
commotion among the smaller river craft, and 
the police wildly signaled the operator to slow 
down. This American built boat made the 
fastest tinie ever made by a motor boat of its 
size and rated horsepower on the Thames, and 
is attracting great attention in the British 
capital. 
H. F. Lippitt Buys Ailsa Craig. 
H. F. Lippitt has purchased the power boat 
Ailsa Craig, winner of the last two races to 
Bermuda. The yacht left New Rochelle—where 
it has been put in condition—last week for 
Bristol, where Mr. Lippitt’s racing sloop Win¬ 
some is fitting out for the season. Ailsa Craig 
was built in 1907 from designs by A. Cary 
Smith & Ferris for James Craig. She was to 
have been a starter in this year’s event, but it is 
doubtful if Mr. Lippitt will let the yacht go, as 
she is to be a tender for Winsome. 
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