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''Flying Cloud'' was 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 100 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. ==Construction== ''Flying Cloud'' is popularly called an extreme clipper, as are many of Donald McKay's ships, but as her dead rise was less than 40" she was not. Donald McKay built many fast clipper ships but only one, ''Stag Hound'' was an extreme clipper, even if others may have been advertised as such. It was popular to advertise clippers as "extreme" because of the popular conception of speed. ''Flying Cloud'' was built in East Boston, Massachusetts, and intended for Enoch Train of Boston, who paid $50,000 for her construction. While still under construction, she was purchased by Grinnell, Minturn & Co., of New York, for $90,000, which represented a huge profit for Train & Co.〔"The Clipper ''Flying Cloud''", ''Era of the Clipper Ships'' (mirrored (here ).〕 A reporter for the Boston ''Daily Atlas'' of 25 April 1851 wrote, "If great length (ft. ), sharpness of ends, with proportionate breadth (ft. ) and depth, conduce to speed, the ''Flying Cloud'' must be uncommonly swift, for in all these she is great. Her length on the keel is 208 feet, on deck 225, and over all, from the knightheads to the taffrail, 235— extreme breadth of beam 41 feet, depth of hold 21½, including 7 feet 8 inches height of between-decks, sea-rise at half floor 20 inches, rounding of sides 6 inches, and sheer about 3 feet."〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flying Cloud (clipper)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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