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CONTENTS
Foreword 7
Introduction to First Edition 9
Introduction to Second Edition 11
Chapter One:SHIP DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION 1775-1850
Employment of fast ships 13
Principles of naval architecture from English books 15
Criteria for hull analysis 20
Innovations in construction 20
Tonnage measurement and registration 23
Chapter Two: EARLY FAST SHIPS 1775-1815
Clipper terminology 26
Cutters and cutter-build 26
English privateers 32
Swedish, French and American privateers and blockade
runners 34
Post Office packets 47
The Transit and other long ships 50
Some royal yachts 52
Revenue cutters and smugglers 53
Brigantine St Helena 55
Chapter Three: CLIPPER SHIP DEVELOPMENT 1815-1839
Definitions 58
Post Office packets 58 A merchant ship and an East Indiaman 59 Hilhouse schooners 62 The brig Neilson 66
The Falcon 68 Outline specification of alterations to the Falcon 74
T & J Brocklebank's brigantine Dash and barquentine Bonanza 75
Leith smacks 79 Clipper schooners 82 A demand for clippers 86 The Symondites 88 Opium clippers 90 Fast ships in eastern trades 95
New measurement tonnage 97
Chapter Four:THE ABERDEEN BOW 1839-1850
The Scottish Maid 99
Development of Aberdeen bow 105
Some of Hall's clippers compared 109
Other clippers of the 1840s 121
Early American clipper ship development 123
The Camertonian 126
Chapter Five: PROGRESS OF SHIPBUILDING 1850-1875130
Iron as a shipbuilding material 130
Rules for iron ships 132
Spread of iron shipbuilding 134
Steel shipbuilding 135
Review of wood shipbuilding 135
Diagonal and experimental construction in wood 140
Composite construction 141
Improvements to deck fittings and rigging 146
Tonnage measurement by 1854 rule 151
Chapter Six: THE CLIPPER SHIP BOOM 1850-1859
Introduction 153
The Three Bells 155
The Australian gold rush 157
Alexander Duthie and Walter Hood 158
The Hurricane and other iron clippers 159
The 'Gauntlet' clipper ship 162
William Rennie 165
Alexander Stephen jnr and the Storm Cloud 167
Benjamin Nicholson and the Annandale 172
Alexander Hall's tea clippers 175
John and William Pile 182
American and Canadian clippers 183
The Schomberg 193
Sarah Neumann and the clippers of Southern England 196
Charles Tayleur & Co., Warrington 198
Clippers of north-west England 201
Clippers of the late 1850's 202
Clipper schooners and brigs 206
Conclusions 214
Chapter Seven: THE LATER CLIPPERS 1860-1875
Introduction 216
The Fiery Cross and Black Prince 219
The auxiliary steamer Sea King 221
Other clippers of 1860-68 225
William Pile and the Maitland 231
Robert Steele & Co's tea clippers 234
Charless Connell and the Spindrift 239
Bernard Waymouth and the Thermopylae 242
Some of Alexander Hall's clippers 249
Clippers of 1869-70 253
The Mermerus and other iron clippers of the 1870's 258
Clippers, brigs and schooners 263
Conclusions 270
Appendix 1: Definitions of tonnage measurements and registration 271
Appendix 2: Ships built by Alexander Hall & Sons, Aberdeen, 274
1811-1875
Appendix 3: Spar dimensions of Thermopylae 280
Appendix 4: Specification of iron sailing ship Sarah Palmer 281
Sources and Bibliography 283
Acknowledgements 290
References 292
Index 302
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