• S. FRANCIS SMITHEMAN — The Flying Cloud's brush with the N.B. Palmer in the South Atlantic; July 1st 1852
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S. FRANCIS SMITHEMAN (British, 1927 - 2016)

"The Flying Cloud's brush with the N.B. Palmer in the South Atlantic, July 1st 1852"

"The Flying Cloud's brush with the N.B. Palmer in the South Atlantic, July 1st 1852"

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Limited Edition Print on Paper

Edition on Paper of 50
Image size: 15 x 22 1/2 inches (38 x 57 cm)

Paper size: 19 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches (49 x 67 cm)

Edition on Canvas of 20

Image size: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm)

The most celebrated of the American great clippers, the Flying Cloud was the largest merchantman yet built and was claimed to be 'destined to make a new era in shipbuilding all over the world'. Of her Longfellow wrote:

'She starts, - she moves, - she seems to feel /the thrill of life along her keel,/ and, spurning with her foot the ground, /with one exulting joyous bound, she leaps into the ocean's arms.'

This Limited Edition illustrates a well-documented 'brush' with another famous clipper, the N.B. Palmer. Both ships were bound from New York to San Francisco. The Cloud left eight days ahead of its rival and yet Captain Low in the Palmer managed to catch up with the ship at 32° South. Captain Cressy challenged by the Palmer's performance crammed on all sail to the studding sails (extra square sails run out on extensions to the yards) and left the Palmer behind for good. In fact in her day the Flying Cloud was the fastest clipper afloat, able to average 15 I/2 knots over a 374 nautical mile run, at times exceeding 18 knots.

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