Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1978. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 978-0809427055. Profusely illustrated text discusses the windjammer sailing ships and the lives of the men who sailed them. Idex: The glorious age of tall ships Gigantic descendants of the lovely clippers Lordly masters of all they surveyed Recollections of youthful fo'c's'le adventure A heyday of proud ships and...
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1974. — 170 p. A documentary of the development and history of the British tea clippers culminating with the building of the "Cutty Sark".
New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1974. — 150 p. — ISBN: 0-679-20207-2. The history of the China tea clippers is examined in this book, especially their struggle in the 19th century for economic survival in the face of the steamships. It also details the advances made in design, hull construction, rigging, sail plans and deck arrangements.
Pitkin Pictorials, 1976. — 28 p. Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.
Publisher info not specified, 1930. — 217 p. FIrst edition, numbered and limited issue of this handsomely illustrated and invaluable work on the baltimore clippers, the Southern cousins of the American 'Yankee' Clippers and mainstays of 19th century American mercantile transport. There is no other type of vessel that holds as much interest to Americans as their fabled Clippers....
7 C's Press, Inc., 1970. — 217 p. The Clipper Ship Era began in 1843 as a result of the growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China; continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1849 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. These memorable years form one of the most important and...
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. — 404 p. The Clipper Ship Era began in 1843 as a result of the growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China; continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1849 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. These memorable years form one of the most important...
New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1911. — 404 p. The Clipper Ship Era began in 1843 as a result of the growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China; continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1849 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. These memorable years form one of the most...
Naval Institute Press, 1961. — 592 p. Since this book’s first appearance the author and others have continued their inquiries into the thoughts and activities of the men who designed, owned, and sailed the clippers. As a result of this scholarly activity over three decades, new information has come to light and has been incorporated into the present edition. Three new...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 140 p. Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the increasing use of steamships made clippers unprofitable on shorter routes. It was turned to the trade...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 140 p. Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the increasing use of steamships made clippers unprofitable on shorter routes. It was turned to the trade...
London: Adlard Coles Nautical, 2014.. — 240 p.. — ISBN: 1472900286. In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fields of America and Australia, and breaking speed records carrying tea back from China, the ships combined beauty with breathtaking performance. With over 200 gorgeous paintings and...
London: Adlard Coles Nautical, 2014. — 240 p. — ISBN: 1472900286.
In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fields of America and Australia, and breaking speed records carrying tea back from China, the ships combined beauty with breathtaking performance.
With over 200 gorgeous paintings and...
New York, NY: Random House, 1952. — 181 p. When the Rainbow , the first American chpper ship, was launched in February, 1845, she rode proudly, surely, beautifully, and traders learned that her great speed meant higher prices for their cargo. More and more clipper ships were built. It wasn't long before British clippers began competing with those built in America. And as the...
Adlard Coles, 2919. — 349 p. An updated and expanded edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the iconic Cutty Sark. The narrative spans the ship's construction at Dumbarton in 1869; her famous tea voyages as well as those with other cargoes; her career under a Portuguese flag; her subsequent return to the Thames, Greenwich; and the dramatic fire, painstaking restoration,...
Adlard Coles, 2919. — 349 p. An updated and expanded edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the iconic Cutty Sark. The narrative spans the ship's construction at Dumbarton in 1869; her famous tea voyages as well as those with other cargoes; her career under a Portuguese flag; her subsequent return to the Thames, Greenwich; and the dramatic fire, painstaking restoration,...
McFarland & Co, 2014.. — 721 p.. — ISBN: 978-0786471126. This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the...
McFarland & Co, 2014. — 721 p. — ISBN: 978-0786471126. This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the...
New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1936. — 381 p. Excerpt from Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 1833-1869: Manhattan was the scene of the next American Shipbuilding venture, when the lawyer - captain Adrian Block built the 16-ton Onrust to te place the galiot Tiger, when that ship caught fire and burned to the water s edge while standing by, in 1613, for a cargo of furs....
New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1936. — 381 p. Excerpt from Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 1833-1869: Manhattan was the scene of the next American Shipbuilding venture, when the lawyer - captain Adrian Block built the 16-ton Onrust to te place the galiot Tiger, when that ship caught fire and burned to the water s edge while standing by, in 1613, for a cargo of furs....
Horizons de France, 1949. — 174 p. Un clipper (ou Klipper) est un bateau à voile à trois mâts ou plus, caractéristique de la deuxième moitié du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle, fait pour convoyer le plus vite possible des denrées périssables, grâce à une voilure importante et une coque en bois ou acier effilée. Créés sur la Côte est américaine, les clippers furent à leur apogée...
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1935. — 180 p. This book is a plain record of two special phases of sea life in Sailing Ships, which only lasted for a few decades and then had to give way to the all-conquering screw. In the Coolie Ships we see the most humane method of transporting coloured labour across the Seven Seas. As a contrast, a few notes on the horrible slave trade have...
Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1929. — 388 p. This book is an effort to preserve the records of the most perfect type of sailing ship at the very height of its development, and it has been written entirely for sailors and those who are interested in shipping. In it I have put down as simply as possible the personal history of certain ships and that in the plain language of the sea...
Second Edition. — Glasgow: J. Brown & son ltd., 1921. — 433 p. In this book I have attempted to give some account of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the development of the great British Dominions under the Southern Cross. It is written specially for the officers and seamen of our Mercantile Marine, and I have endeavoured to avoid such a criticism as the...
Second Edition. — Glasgow: J. Brown & son ltd., 1921. — 433 p. In this book I have attempted to give some account of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the development of the great British Dominions under the Southern Cross. It is written specially for the officers and seamen of our Mercantile Marine, and I have endeavoured to avoid such a criticism as...
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1933. — 392 p. No man lives at the present day who actually saw an opium clipper at sea and the memory of them has almost faded away, yet these beautiful little ships are not worthy of oblivion, for were they not the first trading craft with clipper lines? Did they not produce an incomparable race of seamen and were they not also the chief means by...
Naval Institute Press, 1993. — 191 p. — ISBN: 978-1557500847. The clipper's heyday lasted from the discovery of gold in California in 1849 until the opening of the Suez Canal 20 years later. This book focuses on the ships of the two rival nations Britain and America, built during a period of intense competition in the 1850s.
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1983. — 264 p. Few ship-types have ever held the public imagination like the crack vessels of the nineteenth century tea trade. At the time, the epic races from China produced intense interest and the exploits of famous clippers, such as Ariel, Thermopylae or Taeping, were still retold long after the ships themselves had disappeared - until...
Champaign, IL: Garrard Publishing Company, 1968. — 96 p. In the mid-1800's, the American flag became known and respected on all oceans of the world, for American clippers were considered to be the finest, fastest ships on the sea. The clipper ship era comes vividly to life in this documentary account, richly illustrated with lovely old prints and paintings. Readers will travel...
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0297771744. Before Tall Ships The Men Who Built and Sailed the Tall Ships Farewell to England Race from the Orient The Australian Route The Roaring Forties and Beyond The Last of the Tall Ships
Middletown, CT: Published for the Marine Historical Association by Wesleyan University Press, 1970. — 303 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8195-4015-7. This first volume in the American Maritime Library is the story of a great clipper ship and of the men who built and sailed her. Constructed in 1869, the golden noontime of American windjammers, Glory of the Seas was the last of Donald...
New York, NY: Antique Bulletin Publishing Company, 1930. — 109 p. This work is intended neither as a history of the American clipper ship nor of the firm of Currier & Ives, but will treat only with the subject of prints of the merchant sailing ships which were published by N. Currier and Currier & Ives. It is published in a form which should be helpful to the collector. There can...
Todtri, 1999. — 136 с. A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, usually with separate topmasts and topsails. It is generally more complex than modern rigging, which utilizes newer materials such as aluminum and...
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2000. — 290 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-6881-6793-6. Flying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud , traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days....
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2000. — 290 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-6881-6793-6. Flying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days....
Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. — 116 p. A short history of the famous sailing ship ''Cutty Sark''. Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing...
Scholastic Book Services, 1959. — 66 p. Alan John Villiers DSC; Military Order of St James(23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was an author, adventurer, photographer and mariner.Born in Melbourne, Australia, Villiers first went to sea at age 15 and sailed on board traditionally rigged vessels, including the full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad. He commanded square-rigged ships for...
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1980. — 172 p. — ISBN: 0-8094-2678-1. American shipbuilders produced the first of these ships in the 1840s. The maritime culmination of a Yankee obsession with speed, they were the fastest, most beautiful wooden sailing vessels the world had ever seen — long and lean, with sharp bows, raked masts and a great cumulus of sail. Amazed by the...
Globe Pequot Press, 1986. — 108 p. — ISBN: 978-0871068989. This unique volume chronicles the 150-year history of the tall ships - those incredible sailing vessels that sweep majestically across the sea, their masts piercing the sky, their canvas swelling with the wind. The author explains carefully how these ships were built, how they operate, and what it is like to live and...
Пер. с англ. — Л.: Судостроение, 1985. — 208 с.
Рассказывается о том, как чайные клипера - вершина развития парусных судов - последними пытались выдержать конкуренцию с моторными судами. Приведены сведения о конструкции их корпуса, парусной оснастке, распределении парусов и особенностях палубных надстроек. Книга украшена собственными иллюстрациями автора, известного по...
Пер. с англ. — Л.: Судостроение, 1985. — 208 с. Рассказывается о том, как чайные клипера - вершина развития парусных судов - последними пытались выдержать конкуренцию с моторными судами. Приведены сведения о конструкции их корпуса, парусной оснастке, распределении парусов и особенностях палубных надстроек. Книга украшена собственными иллюстрациями автора, известного по...
2-е изд. — СПб.: Отраслевые журналы, 2011. — 208 с. Рассказывается о том, как чайные клипера - вершина развития парусных судов - последними пытались выдержать конкуренцию с моторными судами. Приведены сведения о конструкции их корпуса, парусной оснастке, распределении парусов и особенностях палубных надстроек. Книга украшена собственными иллюстрациями автора, известного по...
Л.: Судостроение, 1977. — 128 с. Книга, написанная капитаном крупнейшего в мире парусного судна — советского четырехмачтового барка «Крузенштерн», рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Это документальный рассказ о высшем достижении эпохи паруса — клипере «Катти Сарк», ныне пр вращенном в музей, и его«наследниках» — парусниках XX века. Читатель узнает о знаменитых парусных...
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