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A ship model after the clipper The Flying Cloud, 20th Century.

A ship model after the clipper The Flying Cloud, 20th Century.

Handmade. Height 68 cm. Length 82 cm.

Bowsprit with repair. Sold as is.

Provenance

Model probably after; Flying Cloud a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.

Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.

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