Clipper Ship "Red Jacket." : In the Ice off Cape Horn, on Her Passage from Australia to Liverpool, August 1854. : Built by Geo Thomas Esq. at Rockland. Me 1853, for Messrs. Seacomb & Taylor, Boston Mass.

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• PUBLISHER: New York, Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street.

• MEDIUM: Two-color lithograph handcolored,

  DATE: 1855

• EDITION SIZE: Large folio - image size 16 1/2 x 23 3/4" (41.2 x 60.2 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: Drawn by J. B. Smith & Son, Brooklyn, L.I. On stone by C. Parsons. New Best Fifty #15.<br><br> One of the great American Clipper Ship images. <br><br> The Red Jacket was built by George Thomas in Rockland, Maine, and launched on November 2nd, 1853. Her first trip was to Liverpool, leaving New York on January 11th, 1854, and arriving in Liverpool in 13 days, 1 hour and 25 minutes. She was later charted by the White Star Line and made several trips to Australia. The trip in this image shows her homeward bound off of Cape Horn surrounded by fields of sea ice and icebergs, some of which were recorded as two miles in circumference and 200 feet high.<br><br>

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition save for several tears in the margins, all expertly repaired. Good image quality.

• REFERENCE: Conningham #1165.

• CATEGORIES: Currier & Ives , Naval, Nautical & Marine