The Seafarers - The Clipper Ships by A. Whipple

Author:A. Whipple [Whipple, A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780705406314
Google: WwhDPgAACAAJ
Amazon: B000K1W66A
Publisher: Time-life Books
Published: 1980-10-14T13:00:00+00:00

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Spectators at William Webb's East River shipyard cheer the Challenge – the first three-decked clipper built in America and the largest merchantman of her day – as she slips from the ways on May 24, 1851, “End or broadside on, her appearance is truly beautiful,” said an observer, “If cast in a mould she could not have been more perfect to the eye.”

Drunken seamen topple a fruit vendor's stand and harass an elegantly dressed woman on the New York wharves in this 1857 oil painting entitled After a Long Cruise. Sodden sailors themselves were often victimized by unscrupulous owners of saloons and boardinghouses, “They worked like horses at sea,” observed one clipper captain, “and spent their money like asses ashore.”

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