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Page 21 text:
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z GOLD RUSH Down the river hauled a Yankee clipper. And it’s blow, my bully boys, blow! She’s a Yankee mate and a Yankee skipper, And it’s blow, my bully boys, blow! Blow ye winds, heigh ho. For Cal-i-forni-o For there’s plenty of gold, So Vve been told. On the banks of the Sacramento. California, the Land of Golden Promise, saw the clippers in all their glory. The year was 1849 and there was a fantastic demand for ships to carry the miners and more importantly the goods so necessary to a rapidly expanding land. Speed was of the utmost importance, for the ship that could make the swiftest passage brought the highest freight rates to her own- ers. Fortunes were being made and speed records were being broken over night. McKay and his white- winged fliers played no small part in the boom days that were California in the early 50’s. But the boom could not last forever, and almost as quickly as it had appeared it had come to an end. California freight rates had fallen so low by 1854 that it was no longer profitable to send the clippers on the long voyage around the Horn for San Francisco. But speed was still at a premium and the clippers were soon to find employment to the East. 9
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Page 22 text:
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ON TO THE O’, fair she was to look on, as some spirit of the sea, When she raced from China home™ with her freight of fragrant tea; And the shining, swift bonito or the wide- winged albatross Claimed kinship with the clipper beneath the Southern Cross. It was the China trade that started the demand for fast ships, and with the Cali- fornia market gone it was the China trade that kept the clippers alive. It became com- mon practice for owners to send their vessels out to the Far East by way of Cali- fornia and the Hawaiian Islands. At ports such as Hong Kong, Canton, and Whampoa they would load chests of fragrant tea and race off to the west around the Cape of Good Hope for England, completing the round-the-world voyage by returning to I New York or Boston. I Actively engaged in competition with the I British tea clippers, the American clippers I again and again showed their overwhelm- 9 ing superiority'. Yankee skippers and their | “Flying Fish Sailors,” as the sailors in the China trade were called, captured and held the cream of that trade for nearly a decade. But a new breed of sailors was being bom at about this time, the “Steamboat Sailor,” J and war clouds were gathering on the hor- j izon in the United States. Under the Southern Cross. 10
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