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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, narrative 891 (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The admirable and prosperous voyage of the Worshipfull
Master Thomas Candish of Trimley in the Countie of
Suffolke Esquire , into the South sea , and from thence
round about the circumference of the whole earth, begun
in the yeere of our Lord 1586 , and finished 1588 .
Written by Master Francis Pretty lately of Ey in
Suffolke , a Gentleman employed in the same action. (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Certaine rare and special notes most properly belonging
to the voyage of M. Thomas Candish next before described; concerning the heights, soundings, lyings of
lands, distances of places, the variation of the Compasse, the just length of time spent in sayling betweene
divers places, and their abode in them, as also the
places of their harbour and anckering, and the depths
of the same, with the observation of the windes on
severall coastes: Written by M. Thomas Fuller of
Ipswich , who was Master in the desire of M. Thomas
Candish in his foresaid prosperous voyage about the
world.
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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A note of our time spent in sailing betweene certeine
places out of England
, 1586 . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A note of what depths we ankered in on the coast of New
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford . (search)
Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford.
Chapter 6:
The California clipper Ship Era.
the names of Medford-built ships are italicized.
THE New York builders took the lead in the changes designed to improve the speed of vessels after 1840. Mr. John W. Griffiths, a New York designer, advocated increasing the proportion of length to breadth and sharpening the body fore and aft, with long hollow water lines, and bringing the greatest breadth and center of buoyancy further aft. Another improvement he suggested was to round up the ends of the main transom, thereby relieving the quarters and thus making the after-body finer and the stern above the water-line much lighter and handsomer.
Captain Clark. Clipper Ship Era.
Mr. Griffiths, in 1843, designed the Rainbow on these lines, although she was not launched until 1845.
The superiority of this type of ship was that with their sharp lines and lofty canvas they could point higher, and were able to cross belts of calm and