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Title: The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews 1843-1869
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Clark, Arthur Hamilton, 1841-1922
Subjects: Clipper ships
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as their dutiesoften kept them on deck for days and nights to-gether in storm, cold, and fog. Then there werefrequently desperate characters an ^ng the crew andsteerage passengers, who required to be handledwith moral courage and physical force, while thecabin passengers were usually gentlemen and gentle-women of good breeding, accustomed to courtesyand politeness, which they expected to find in thecaptains with whom they sailed. These require-ments evolved a remarkable type of men, hearty,bluff, and jovial, without coarseness, who wouldnever be mistaken for anything but gentlemen. The packet mates, having no social duties on ship-board to distract their attention, were able to de-vote their time and energies to improving the moralsand manners of the crew, and it was on board theBlack Ball liners that belaying pin soup and handspike hash, so stimulating to honest toil,were first introduced for the benefit of mutinous orslothful mariners. Plenty of sail was carried by the packet ships
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Packet Ships, 1815-1850 45 of this period—square lower, topmast and topgallantstudding sails, skysails set on sliding gunter mastswhich were struck in the winter time, with threereefs in the topsails and single reefs in the top-gallantsails. The racing was fast and furious. In1837 a match was made between the Black Ballliner Columbus, 597 tons, Captain De Peyster, andthe Sheridan, Captain Russell, of the Dramatic Line,then on her first voyage, for a stake of ;10,000 aside, from New York to Liverpool, play or pay.The Sheridan, though only 895 tons, carried a crewof forty picked men before the mast, with regularpay of ;25 a month, and the promise of a bonusof ;50 each, provided their ship won the race. Theships sailed together from New York on Thursday,February 2, 1837, and the Columbus won the racein sixteen days, followed two days later by theSheridan, This is the first ocean match across theAtlantic of which any record has been preserved,though, of course, there had been many infor

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