FLYING CLOUD

Circa 1851.  An extreme clipper launched in 1851, at the shipyard of Donald McKay, East Boston, for Enoch Train, Boston.

Duncan McLean in The Boston Daily Atlas, April 25, 1851 wrote - If great length, sharpness of ends, with proportionate breadth 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 knight heads to the taffrail, 235 - extreme breadth of beam 41 feet, depth of hold 21½, including 7 feet 8 inches height of between-decks, dead-rise at half floor 20 inches, rounding of sides 6 inches, and sheer about 3 feet. Length Overall 37in .

3- Sheet Plan

1/96 SCALE 

TPSBL-80

PRICE:  $ 25.00

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