A model of the American clipper ship Young America

WM. E. HITCHCOCK, CIRCA 2000

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A model of the American clipper ship Young America
Wm. E. Hitchcock, circa 2000
the hull is built up from the solid with black painted topsides and the bottom is copper plated. The deck is planked in basswood and fitted with numerous details including: anchors, bollards, bilge pumps, capstan, ladders, pin & fife rails, forward deck house with two ship's boats lashed to the roof, cargo hatches, skylights, companionway, binnacle, ship's wheel and more. Fitted with a bowsprit, three masts, cross spars, stun'sail booms, spanker boom and gaff, tops and trees, and rigged with standing and running rigging. Mounted on a pair of wood pedestals and displayed in a glass case with mahogany trim with matching base and stand.
62 x 46¼ in. (157.5 x 117.5 cm.) on stand

Lot Essay

A three-masted wooden extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by William H. Webb, New York, for George B. Daniels, New York. Her principal dimensions were: LOA:243ft, Beam: 43ft-2in, Draft: 26ft-9in, and tonnage: 1439 tons. She was known as an able, seaworthy and long lived ship. Between 1853 and 1880 she made numerous passages between New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. She went missing in 1886 after she entered the Atlantic oil trade.

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