Rainbow (ship)
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The Rainbow was an American three-masted ship .
She was launched in New York on January 22, 1845 as the first real clipper for the New York shipping company Howland & Aspinwall. It was designed by ship designer John Willis Griffiths (1809-1882) for the first time based on a calculated model and test in the towing tank .
Their length-to-width ratio was 5: 1. Clippers with this or higher rating were referred to as extreme clippers, those with ratings below that as medium clippers. It had a white circumferential band around the hull and indicated gun ports to deter pirates who could be encountered in the China Sea after passing the Sunda Strait .
The Rainbow made under Captain John country three trips to Hong Kong / Canton via the Cape of Good Hope and back from tea port Whampoa (Ch. Huangpou), eastern. Of Canton (early. Kwantung, chin. Guangzhou), province of Guangdong , China , after New York. On her maiden voyage , she lost her three Bramstengen in the South Atlantic . After arriving in Hong Kong, Captain Land had the stanchions re- rigged, shortened by 1 m, due to over- rigging . Originally rigged with simple Marts, simple Bram and Royal sails (4 square sails on the mast), she then had split topsails . The tea freight covered the cost of building the ship and raised an additional $ 45,000. The second trip home took 79 days, a record drive.
Captain Hayes took over the ship in 1847 and took it to Canton on its fourth tea voyage. On her fifth trip from New York to Canton via Valparaíso , she got lost in the Cape Horn region.
Ship data
- Construction: Klipper hull (wood) as smooth decker
- Rigg . Vollschiff with handle double Mars, trad. Bram, royal sails; initially simple Martian sails and head sails, royals
- Use: tea clipper
- Launched : January 22, 1845
- Maiden voyage : February 1, 1845 to Hong Kong and Canton
- Builder : Smith & Dimon, New York
- Designer: John Willis Griffiths
- Shipping company : Howland & Aspinwall, New York
- Home port : New York, USA ;
- Figurehead: yes
- Galion stern length (fuselage length): 55 m (180'6 ")
- Length in KWL : 48.46 m (159 ')
- Width: 9.7 m (31 '10 ")
- Room depth : 5.6 m (18'4 ")
- Measurement : 757 GRT (gross register tons)
- Sail area : ~ 2,200 m² (38: 15 square, 5 stay, 4 fore, 12 lee sails, 1 mizzen, 1 Spencer sail (additional gaff sails on the main mast))
- Auxiliary machines: none
- Construction costs: ~ $ 90,000
- First skipper : John Land
- other captains: William H. Hayes
- Crew: ~ 30 men
- Top speed: ~ 15 kn
- Sister ships: none