Cased Model of the Clipper Ship 'Red Jacket'

Cased Model of the Clipper Ship 'Red Jacket'
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Product Code: 13215
Shipping Weight: 24.00 lbs


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Cased Model of the Clipper Ship 'Red Jacket'

Mid 20th vintage kit built model of the Clipper Ship 'Red Jacket' built by "Buster" Treat of Petersburg, Virginia sometime during the late 40's or early 50's. The model measures an overall length of 21 inches, 14 1/2 inches in height and 5 1/2 inches wide at the main yard. Mounted into a hand-built stain pine wood case with green painted interior back board, side boards and top board and with a glass front. The case measures 25 1/2 inches wide, 16 3/4 inches tall and 9 inches in depth. Brass bail handle on top. Nice presentation and survives in good condition.

  • Length overall- 251'
  • Beam- 44'
  • Draft- 31'
  • Gross Tons- 2305
  • Red Jacket was a clipper ship, one of the largest and fastest ever built. She was also the first ship of the White Star Line company She was named after Sagoyewatha, a famous Seneca Indian chief, called "Red Jacket" by settlers. She was designed by Samuel Hartt Pook, built by George Thomas in Rockland, Maine, and launched in 1853.

    Like many other fast clippers it is claimed that she is an extreme clipper, but this is technically incorrect. Extreme clippers were some of the clippers built in the period 1850 to 1852 only, and had at least a 40" dead rise at half floor. Being known as an extreme clipper was to be known as fast, and it became popular to call all fast clippers "extreme".

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    Voyages

    On her first voyage, Red Jacket set the speed record for sailing ships crossing the Atlantic by traveling from New York to Liverpool in 13 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes, dock to dock.

    She left Rockland under tow, and was rigged in New York. Her captain was a veteran packet ship commander, Asa Eldridge of Yarmouth, Massachusetts,[2] and she had a crew of 65. On the passage to Liverpool, she averaged 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h), with sustained bursts of 17 knots (31.5 km/h).

    A Collins Line steamer arriving in Liverpool (which had left New York two days before Red Jacket) reported that Red Jacket was just astern. As she entered the harbor, tugs tried to get lines aboard the clipper but she was traveling too fast. Thousands, alerted by the Collins Liner, watched as Eldridge shortened sail and backed the vessel into its berth.

    At Liverpool she had her bottom coppered and cabins fitted out for the Australian immigrant trade.

    Red Jacket was purchased by Pilkington & Wilcox and other Liverpool investors with registry changing on April 24, 1854. (Most secondary sources say that the vessel was bought by the British a year later, copying a mistake made by earlier historians.) She was then chartered by the White Star Line for a run to Melbourne, Australia. Under Captain Samuel Reid (who owned 1/16 of her), she reached in Melbourne in 69 days. Only one clipper, James Baines, ever made the run faster.

    Red Jacket served in the immigrant trade until 1861, when she became an Australian and Indian coastal freighter.

    Fate of the ship

    In 1872 Red Jacket joined clippers Marco Polo and Donald McKay, which "ended their days in the Quebec lumber trade," and became a lumber carrier from Quebec to London. In 1883 she was sold to Blandy Brothers, a Portuguese shipping company in the Madeira Islands as a coaling hulk. She was driven ashore in a gale in 1885.

    *The history of the 'Red Jacket" was taken from wikipedia.

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