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	The Commodore Perry
		Donald McKay's Black Ball Quartette clippers; Lightning, Champion of the Seas, James Baines, and the Donald McKay accomplished astounding achievements across the Atlantic for James Baines and Co. with their record runs from Liverpool to Australia.
		Over a dozen American clippers were bought by James Baines and Co. in 1862, and a slightly lesser number in 1863.
		The Lightning, Champion of the Seas, and the Donald McKay were bought by Thomas Harrison, along with others, and were soon chartered back to the restructured firms that then became known as Baines, Taylor and Co. of Liverpool and T. Mackay, Son and Co. of London.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page56.html

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Lightning
		Lightning was the first of the magnificent quartet of clippers built by Donald McKay for James Baines's Black Ball Line of passenger ships for the run between Liverpool and Australia.
		Lightning was not considered as beautiful as her consorts James Baines or Champion of the Seas.
		Lightning's other record passages include 63 days from Melbourne to Liverpool in 1854, on the second leg of a passage in which she sailed round the world in a record 5 months, 8 days, and 10 hours, including time in port.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_055300_lightning.htm

	Clipper Ships Overview source title wall be added(dcs 1996, 01-13)
		His Flying Fish and Flying Cloud were perhaps the most famous of McKay's clippers, though the Lightning, Champion Of The Seas, James Baines, and Donald McKay, which he built for James Baine's Black Ball Line of Liverpool, were equally successful.
		As early as 1832 an enlarged Baltimore clipper, the Ann McKim, had been given square rig; but the first true clipper ship is generally held to have been the Rainbow built in 1845 at New York.
		To my dismay, there is no clipper ship-related museum in the United States, Fortunately, the British had the foresight to make sure this genre did not pass from the scene unmarked by tribute.
	www.globalindex.com /clippers/museum/clip_def.htm (687 words)

	Donald McKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lightning - (March 1854), Clipper, 237.5 ft x 44ft x 23ft, 2,084 tons, built by Donald McKay for James Baines of Liverpool for the Australia trade.
		Lightning was possibly the last really large extreme clipper to be built in USA.
		McKay designed and built some of the most successful clippers ever built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_McKay (687 words)

	Maritime Topics On Stamps : Clipper ships
		She and the 'James Baines' were the fastest clippers on the Australian trade routes.
		Typical was the elongated and concave shape of the stem, the so-called 'clipper stem'.
		Early on, these clippers sailed as packet-ships, but with their great speed they were ideally suited—and used—to smuggle opium and slaves as well...
	www.palouse.net /hobbies/shipstamps/Topics/html/clipper.htm (1810 words)

	A Royal Visit
		The Lightning made the run in 89 days, the Champion of the Seas in 101 days and the James Baines in 103 days, whereas the average sailing transport passage was 120 days, the full-powered screw steamer passage was 83 days, and the auxiliary screw steamer passage was 96 3/4 days.
		She is rather heavy aloft, with yards almost sufficient to overpower her with canvas; in fact she is a perfect clipper and one in which the builder has thrown aside the minor points of symmetry to produce a fleet and useful vessel.
		The Lightning, like all clipper ships by the 1860's, was past her prime and from that point on only made one voyage a year in service to the Black Ball Line.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page54.html (1810 words)

	Passenger Lists, Shipping Lists: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Voyages to Victoria
		"Lightning" was the first of four 2,000 ton clipper ships ordered from the famous shipyards of Donald McKay by James Baines for his Blackball Line of Packets.
		Ian Nicholson, "Log of Logs", vol.1, p.302; Don Charlwood, "The Long Farewell", pp.25, 29-30 & 227-249; Jack Loney, "The CLipper Lightning in Geelong 1862-1969", 1988.
		The "Lightning" caught fire while loading wool at Geelong in 1869 and burnt at her moorings.
	shippinglists.museum.vic.gov.au /ship.asp?ID=4 (1810 words)

	The Old Merchant Marine - Chapter VIII. The Packet Ships of the “Roaring Forties” (by Ralph D. Paine)
		The records made by the James Baines and the Lightning were no discredit to the stanch, unconquerable packet ships which, year in and year out, held their own with the steamer lines until just before the Civil War.
		This clipper Lightning did her 436 sea miles in one day, or eighteen and a half knots, better than twenty land miles an hour, and this is how the surpassing feat was entered in her log, or official journal: “March 1.
		This clipper, sent across the Atlantic on her maiden trip, left in her foaming wake a twenty-four hour run which no steamer had even approached and which was not equaled by the fastest express steamers until twenty-five years later when the greyhound Arizona ran eighteen knots in one hour on her trial trip.
	www.authorama.com /old-merchant-marine-8.html (1810 words)

	Show Details
		The 'Lightning' was an extreme clipper of 2083 tons built by Donald McKay of East Boston, USA in 1853 for James Baines and Co. of Liverpool for their Black Ball Line of Australian passenger ships.
		The 'Lightning' was a well known ship and had well appointed passenger accommodation.
		Well known for fast passages the 'Lightning' was destroyed by fire while at Geelong, Vic.
	www.anmm.gov.au /pics/search/search_showdetails.cfm?work_id=220 (1810 words)

	Clipper Paintings and Lithographs
		This painting depicts three American clipper ships, Lightning, James Baines and Red Jacket in Hobson's Bay as seen from Pt.
		This 3-masted clipper has the fore-royal sail, main-skysail and mizzen royal sail unfurled, the fore-topgallant sail, the main-royal sail and the mizzen-topgallant are loose.
		The broadside view of the starboard side, shows the clipper not fully rigged, the square rig sails and top sails are furled.
	www.anmm.gov.au /gold150/clipper1.htm (1810 words)

	Loss of the Ocean Monarch, 1848 - introduction
		Several other of McKay's clippers were lost by fire, including the Lightning, at Geelong, Australia in 1869, and the James Baines, of the Black Ball Line, at Liverpool's Huskisson Dock in 1858.
		Whilst the Ocean Monarch was not a true clipper, she was a large vessel and a fast sailer in Atlantic conditions.
		The Era of the Clipper Ships - incorrectly implies that the vessel was sailing from Boston to Liverpool.
	www.mightyseas.co.uk /articles/ocean_monarch/om_intro.htm (1810 words)

	Famous Clipper Ships
		Lightning, James Baines and Red Jacket in Hobson's Bay
		In 1872, Thermopylae left Shanghai with a cargo of tea for London in company with the London clipper Cutty Sark.
		- This was the last clipper ship built by Donald McKay.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~dbasha1/clipper.html (1810 words)

	The Donald McKay
		Donald McKay was held is such high esteem by James Baines that Baines decided to name the last ship of his famous Black Ball Quartette after him.
		Captain Henry Warner, the Englishman who had lived in East Boston for years and had commanded the Sovereign of the Seas on her first charter run to Australia for James Baines and Co., took command of the Donald McKay and sailed from Boston on February 21, 1855, with her builder, Donald McKay aboard.
		Whenever the Donald McKay arrived in the East River she always attracted the notice of those in the shipping community, especially from those who were around in the early glory days of the clipper ships.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page55.html (1920 words)

	McCullough Family
		James and Elinor with their children emigrated to Australia in 1854 via Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the "Black Ball Line" Clipper "James Baines".
		Children: Alice Jane 1873-1952 married Hugh Milner Black in 1853, their son Tom Campbell Black became a world famous aviator when he and C.W.A. Scott won the London to Melbourne Centenary Air Race in 1934.
		William Mayne 1880-1925 married Elizabeth McLaren Black in 1914.
	mccullough.150m.com (1920 words)

	Donald McKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lightning - (March 1854), Clipper, 237.5 ft x 44ft x 23ft, 2,084 tons, built by Donald McKay for James Baines of Liverpool for the Australia trade.
		McKay designed and built some of the most successful clippers ever built.
		Lightning was possibly the last really large extreme clipper to be built in USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_McKay (232 words)

	Red Jacket Runs the Iceberg Gauntlet
		James Baines was able to entice Enright away from his White Star Line rivals offer to command the Red Jacket, by meeting Enright's unheard of salary demands of £1,000 a year to command the Lightning.
		The Red Jacket was the fastest clipper that had then visited Melbourne and it occurred to these bankers that I was going to run off with this gold and become a Captain Kidd of a buccaneering Morgan.
		The Red Jacket continued on her first around the world voyage and Reid navigated a course between Curtis Island and Kent's group as a stiff sou'wester filled her sails and moved the Red Jacket right along at 15 knots close-hauled and close to 18 knots with strong beam winds.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page49web7.html (5729 words)

	Clipper Paintings and Lithographs
		This painting depicts three American clipper ships, Lightning, James Baines and Red Jacket in Hobson's Bay as seen from Pt.
		Port Melbourne can be seen in the background.
		Attributed to Thomas Robertson, oil on canvas, c.
	www.anmm.gov.au /gold150/clipper1.htm (5729 words)

	Clipper Ship Lightning
		Launched at the shipyard of Donald McKay, East Boston, MA, USA, for the Black Ball Line (James Baines & Co.), Liverpool.
		You are aware that she was so sharp and concave forward that one of her stupid captains who did not comprehend the principle upon which she was built, persuaded the owners to fill in the hollows of her bows.
		They did so, and according to their British bluff notions, she was not only better for the addition, but would sail faster, and wrote me to the effect.
	www.globalindex.com /clippers/museum/lightnin.htm (906 words)

	Clipper James BAINES
		The Huskisson Dock will be run dry in the next few days, when the extent of the damage sustained will be ascertained.
		The Dock Authorities should be compelled, in the bill now before, parliament, to provide complete water pipes for extinguishing fires along the dock quays.
		The masts fell in the course of the afternoon, destroying part of the roof of the quay shed in their descent, but, fortunately, no one was injured.
	www.old-merseytimes.co.uk /jamesbaines.html (906 words)

	The Commodore Perry
		The Commodore Perry sailed for Melbourne again in 1862, and from there she was ordered to Bombay, and Calcutta; where James Baines and Co. had contracted her to take aboard a large number of Indian coolies and she sailed for British Guyana on October 4, 1862, for a long passage of 120 days.
		The Commodore Perry soon made a name for herself with a record passage on January 12, 1855 to Sydney, Australia and proved Donald McKay's theory that a medium clipper with a flat bottom was superior to great deadrise.
		The Commodore Perry and the Japan, as she was originally named, were launched in the fall of 1854 from Donald McKay's East Boston shipyard.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page56.html (3756 words)

	Ron's Liverpool - Ships L
		The Liverpool clipper owned by James Baines & Co which set a record of 63 days crossing from Melbourne to Liverpool.
		A ship of 130 tons used on the Liverpool to Delaware route, it was one of William Penn's fleet of 23 and the 17th to arrive, containing mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire families [15].
		Built for the Liverpool owner and used on the Liverpool to Quebec and Boston routes.
	members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/liverpool/ships_l.htm (764 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Great Republic
		Originally intended for the Australia trade (as were McKay's James Baines, Donald McKay, Lightning, and Champion of the Seas), in 1855 she left New York for Liverpool with 52 crew under Joseph Limeburner, who wrote,
		As designed and constructed, Donald McKay's extreme clipper Great Republic was the largest merchant sailing ship ever built in the United States, measuring 335 feet long, 53 feet and 38 feet depth of hold, and a capacity of 4,555 gross tons by old measurement.
		McKay decided to take the insurance money and she was sold to A. Low and Brother.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_041100_greatrepubli.htm (498 words)

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