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FLYING CLOUD
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Flying Cloud was a clipper ship built
in East Boston, Massachusetts
that set the world's
sailing record for the fastest passage between New
York and San Francisco. The record 89 days 8 hours
was held by the ship for over 100 years, from
1854 to 1989.
In
the early days of the California Gold Rush, it took
more than 200 days for a ship to travel from New
York to San Francisco. Flying Cloud's 89-day was a
headline-grabbing world record, making the ship a
celebrity overnight.
Flying Cloud's achievement was more unusual
because her navigator was a woman, Eleanor Creesy,
who had been studying oceanic currents, weather
phenomena, and astronomy since her girlhood
in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
On June 19, 1874, ship
Flying Cloud went ashore on the Beacon Island bar in New
Brunswick. There have been
only two vessels that could beat her record.
One was a breakthrough-designed (after 136 years!)
sailboat Thursday's Child which completed the
passage in 80 days, 20 hours. The other was the
French racing yacht Gitana 13, with a time of
43 days and 38 minutes, in 2008.
This primarily wood Flying Cloud ship
model is 32" long
x 24"
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in the contiguous US included. Other places: $500 flat
rate.)
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Learn more
about the Flying Cloud here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_(clipper)
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