WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
The Colonial Clippers cover

The Colonial Clippers

Chapter 1: THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS
Open in WeRead

About This Book

The author provides a detailed chronicle of the fast sailing clippers that served the Britain–Australia routes, dividing coverage between emigrant passenger ships and wool clippers. It combines technical descriptions, sail plans and illustrations with passage records, captains’ logs, ownership and commercial practices, notable races and 24-hour runs, and accounts of accidents, fires and final fates. Anecdotes and measured statistics illuminate everyday life aboard, steerage conditions, and changes in routing and shipbuilding, while lists of best passages and vessel biographies trace the operational history and later careers of many prominent clippers.

THE
COLONIAL CLIPPERS

BY

BASIL LUBBOCK

Author of “The China Clippers”; “Round the Horn Before the Mast”;
“Jack Derringer, a tale of Deep Water”; and “Deep Sea Warriors”

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLANS

SECOND EDITION

GLASGOW
JAMES BROWN & SON (glasgow) Ltd., Publishers
52 to 58 Darnley Street
1921