Donald McKay
Donald McKay (born September 4, 1810 in Nova Scotia , † September 20, 1880 in Hamilton , Massachusetts ) was a Canadian - American shipbuilder .
In 1827 McKay emigrated from Canada to New York. He first worked at Isaac Webb. In 1841 McKay opened his first own shipyard in Newburyport . In 1845 he moved to Boston .
The first clipper that he built there was the Stag Hound of 1850. From McKay came some of the most famous clipper their time, such as the Lightning , with a daily distance of 436 nautical miles held a world record for a long time and a speed of 21 knots reached , as well as the James Baines , which circumnavigated the world in a record time of 133 days and also recorded a record drive across the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool with a travel time of twelve days and six hours . The 1869 Glory of the Seas covered the New York – San Francisco route in the record time of 94 days in 1869 and the Great Republic was the largest clipper ever built.
Donald McKay was named after Donald McKay .
The heyday of the clipper ended around 1855. From 1863 McKay also built ships with metal hulls, including for the Navy , including the warship Nausett . McKay had no more financial success in this later phase of his career.
List of ships built by Donald McKay
- 1842: Courier
- 1843: St. George
- 1844: John R. Skiddy
- 1844: Joshua Bates
- 1845: Washington Irving
- 1846: Anglo Saxon
- 1846: New World
- 1847: AZ
- 1848: Ocean Monarch
- 1848: Anglo American
- 1848: Jenny Lind
- 1848: LZ
- 1849: Plymouth Rock
- 1849: Helicon
- 1849: Reindeer
- 1849: Parliament
- 1850: Moses Wheeler
- 1850: Sultana
- 1850: Cornelius Grinell
- 1850: Antarctic
- 1850: Daniel Webster
- 1850: Stag Hound
- 1851: Flying Cloud
- 1851: Staffordshire
- 1851: North America
- 1851: Flying Fish
- 1852: Sovereign of the Seas
- 1852: Westward Ho!
- 1852: Bald Eagle
- 1853: Empress of the Seas
- 1853: Star of Empire
- 1853: Chariot of Fame
- 1853: Great Republic
- 1853: Romance of the Sea
- 1854: Lightning
- 1854: Champion of the Seas
- 1854: James Baines
- 1854: Blanche Moore
- 1854: Santa Claus
- 1854: Benin
- 1854: Commodore Perry
- 1854: Japan
- 1855: Donald McKay
- 1855: Zephyr
- 1855: Defender
- 1856: Henry Hill
- 1856: Mastiff
- 1856: Minnehaha
- 1856: Amos Lawrence
- 1856: Abbott Lawrence
- 1856: Baltic
- 1856: Adriatic
- 1858-1859: Alhambra
- 1858: RR Higgins
- 1859: Benj. S. Wright
- 1860: Mary B. Dyer
- 1860: H. & R. Atwood
- 1861–1862: General Putnam
- 1864-1865: Trefoil
- 1864-1865: Yucca
- 1864-1865: Nausett
- 1864-1865: Ashuelot
- 1866: Geo. B. Upton
- 1866: Theodore D. Wagner
- 1867: North Star
- 1867-1868: Helen Morris
- 1868: Sovereign of the Seas
- 1869: Glory of the Seas
- 1869: Frank Atwood
- 1874-1875: Adams
- 1874-1875: Essex
- 1875: America
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKay, Donald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American shipbuilder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nova Scotia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1880 |
| Place of death | Hamilton |