Glory of the Seas

Glory of the Seas

Ship data flag  United States Ship type Clipper Shipyard Donald McKay , Boston Launch November 1869 Commissioning 1870 Whereabouts The ship was burned to extract its built-in metals.

Ship dimensions and crew length 76.2 m ( Lüa ) width 13.4 m Draft Max. 8.7 m displacement 2,102 tn.l.

Rigging and rigging Rigging Full ship Number of masts 3 Sail area 6690 m²

The Glory of the Seas was an American clipper built in 1869 . The sailing ship was on the shipyard of Donald McKay in Boston built. It was burned on May 13, 1923 on Seattle Beach .

Record runs

The Glory of the Seas managed to set new records on two of their trips. On October 13, 1873, she sailed from the port of New York and on January 18, returned to the port of San Francisco . The trip only lasted 96 days. The second record run started on March 14, 1875 in San Francisco and ended 35 days later on April 19, 1875 in Sydney , Australia .

Sail plan

The sail plan for the three masts of the Glory of the Seas provided for two topsails , a top sail and a royal sail . In addition, each mast could, as is typical of the American design, carry a sky sail (sky sail).

Whereabouts

On May 13, 1923, the Glory of the Seas was beached near Seattle. There the ship's hull was burned in order to get to the built-in iron and copper .

literature

• Richard C. McKay: Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder Donald McKay. GP Putnam's Sons, 1928, pp. 322-327, 374, 376.
• Arthur H. Clark: The Clipper Ship Era. II. GP Putnam's Sons, 1910, pp. 258, 369.
• Octavius ​​T. Howe, Frederick C. Matthews: America Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Marine Research Society, 1926, pp. 84, 714, 737.
• ABC Whipple: The Clipper Ships. Time-Life Books, 1980, 62.

Web links

Commons : Glory of the Seas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Glory of the Seas (1869) , description on bruzelius.info. Retrieved April 16, 2020.