Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1911 — Race Between Clipper Ships. [ARTICLE]

Race Between Clipper Ships.

The accuracy of sailing in the palmy days of the clipper ships is indicated by the statement that offTFlfinety-ntne days’ race between five clipper ships In 1866 three went into port at the end of their voyage on the same tide, the Taeping beating the Ariel by only twelve minutes and the Series by little over four hours. The other two ships in this race, the Fiery Cross and the Taitsing, came in two days later. The Red Jacket on her first voyage went from Sandy Hook to the Rock light, Liverpool, in 13 days 1 hour, and the fastest British built clipper, the Melbourne, made when running her easting down 5,100 miles in seventeen days. We ought never to have lost the position we then held upon the ocean, when Donald McKay and Samuel Hall led the. world in the building of fast ships. It is humiliating to think of the change that has come over our mercantile marine since their day.—Army and Navy, Journal.