clipper ships

Captain Murdock is accompanied by his wife and children as he commands a clipper ship from New York to San Francisco.

Twelve-year-old Benjamin Slocum keeps his own journal as he travels with his family from Boston to Honolulu in the clipper ship Sea Tiger.

Discusses the design, uses, sailing, and decline of clipper ships that enjoyed a short but glorious reign of the seas during the mid-1800's.

Surveys the history of clippers and whaling ships and examines their significance in America's growth as a nation.

A sailor recalls how the eighteen-year-old wife of Captain Joshua Patten took charge of the clipper ship Neptune's Car during a race from New York to San Francisco in 1856.