Flying Cloud (clipper)
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 100 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.
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Flying Cloud (clipper)
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 100 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.
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De Flying Cloud was een van de ...... jzer en koper terug te winnen.
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Flying Cloud was a clipper shi ...... e Australia and timber trades.
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Le Flying Cloud (Nuage Volant) ...... se maintiendra de 1854 à 1989.
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1871-04-19
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Went aground, Beacon Island Ba ...... for iron and copper fastenings
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"The Clipper Ship Flying Cloud ...... James E. Buttersworth, 1859-60
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De Flying Cloud was een van de ...... door een modern schip in 1988.
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Flying Cloud was a clipper shi ...... e Australia and timber trades.
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Le Flying Cloud (Nuage Volant) ...... se maintiendra de 1854 à 1989.
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Flying Cloud (1851)
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Flying Cloud (clipper)
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Flying Cloud (schip, 1851)
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