Photographed on 28 July 2003
Links to Relevant Websiteshttp://www.lostatsea.ca/shelburc.htm Donald McKay's journey to Liverpool Boston Daily Atlas, 18 June 1851 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1851-06-18).html The Glory of the Seas an excellent brief overview of Donald McKay's life http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/page72.html Sovereign of the Seas extreme clipper ship built in 1852 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Sovereign_of_the_Seas(1852).html James Baines extreme clipper ship built in 1854 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/James_Baines(1854).html Reproduction of a page from the Diary of Alfred Withers on board the James Baines, Liverpool to Melbourne, 1857 http://www.nmm.ac.uk/uploads/jpg/C2410_14.jpg National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England Chariot of Fame medium clipper ship built in 1853 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Chariot_of_Fame(1853).html Flying Cloud extreme clipper launched in 1851, at the shipyard of Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Flying_Cloud(1851).html The New Clipper Ship Flying Cloud Boston Daily Atlas, 25 April 1851 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1851-04-25).html Clipper ship Flying Cloud, from New York for San Francisco Boston Daily Atlas, 29 June 1853 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1853-06-29).html Staffordshire clipper packet ship built in 1851 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Staffordshire(1851).html Clipper ship Staffordshire now receiving freight for San Francisco Boston Daily Atlas, 23 April 1852 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1852-04-23).html Flying Fish extreme clipper ship built in 1851 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Flying_Fish(1851).html The clipper Flying Fish which sailed from Boston on November 7, 1851, arrived at San Francisco in 100 days and 6 hours. Bald Eagle extreme clipper ship built in 1852 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Bald_Eagle(1852).html Clipper ship Bald Eagle Boston Daily Atlas, 17 November 1852 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1852-11-17).html Designed, modelled, draughted and built by Mr. Donald McKay Empress of the Seas clipper ship built in 1853 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Empress_of_the_Seas(1853).html Stag Hound extreme clipper ship built in 1850 by Donald McKay http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Staghound(1850).html letter from a passenger on board the clipper ship Stag Hound Boston Daily Atlas, 10 June 1851 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1851-06-10).html Clipper ship Stag Hound, of Boston The U.S. Nautical Magazine, 1855 http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Shipbuilding/USNM-2(1855)_p401.html Donald McKay extreme clipper launched in 1855 at the shipyard of Donald McKay http://www.globalindex.com/clippers/museum/donald_m.htm Champion of the Seas built in 1854 at East Boston by Donald McKay The largest sailing merchant ship in the world... http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1854-05-20).html |
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Clipper Ship by John H. Lienhard Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History, University of Houston Clipper ships were not a specific design, they were a state of mind. And that state of mind lasted only a decade... They were tall and beautiful. Acres of canvas drove them at 14 knots. For a while those expensive ships paid for themselves on a single voyage... http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi338.htm |
BooksDonald McKay and the Clipper Ships by Mary Ellen Chase,181 pages with photographs and diagrams, published 1959 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts Yankee Clippers: the Story of Donald McKay by Clara Ingram Judson and Yukio Tashiro, a biography of the Nova Scotia farmer's son who dreamed of ships as a lad, worked in the shipyards as a youth, and designed and built more than ninety ships in the great days of clipper sail published 1965 by Follett Publishing Company, Chicago Donald McKay: Designer of Clipper Ships by John O'Hara Cosgrave II and Clara Ingram Judson published 1943 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York Some famous sailing ships and their builder, Donald McKay: a study of the American sailing packet and clipper eras, with biographical sketches of America's foremost designer and master builder of ships, and a comprehensive history of his many famous ships by Richard C. McKay (grandson of Donald McKay), 396 pages with 25 b/w illustrations, plus 10 plates in colour with tissue guard, and 51 pages with 42 b/w plates and 11 plans models, maps, facsimile letters and telegrams — A comprehensive history of Donald McKay's ships, drawn from original sources and family records, from his first, the trading ship Courier in 1842, to his last marine enterprise, the refitting of the famous schooner yacht America in 1875. published 1928 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York third printing in June 1931 (of 1928 edition) reprinted 1969 by 7 C's Press, Riverside, Connecticut reprinted 1988 by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships by Richard C. McKay, 512 pages with 58 illustrations, plans, and maps ISBN 048628820X published 1995 (reprint of the 1928 edition) by Dover Publications Inc. "This rare and valuable study, written by McKay's descendent who had access to important family records, reveals McKay's extraordinary accomplishments as it recreates the great era of the American sailing packet and clipper ship. In the end, steamships replaced McKay's masterworks, but never eclipsed the magnificent sailing tradition whose climax they represented." |
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