Thomczek identified the subject as Flying Cloud, a 19th-century clipper ship that set the world’s sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco. The Smithsonian ...

Clipper ships were the disruptive technology ... Among his many accomplishments, MacKay built the record-setting clipper Flying Cloud. Eleanor Cressy was the navigator for the Flying Cloud on ...

Launched in 1851, this clipper ship was built for Enoch Train ... Three years later, in 1854, Flying Cloud beat her own record. Her dream was to marry a ship’s captain and sail the world with ...

On her maiden voyage in 1851, the clipper ship Flying Cloud, carrying valuable cargo ... The ship made the 16,000-mile trip in 89 days, 21 hours--a record time. As astonishing as the speed ...

The clipper Flying Cloud, one of the most famous ships ever to sail under the American flag, sailed from New York to San Francisco in 89 days and eight hours, a record set in 1854 that stood for ...

In their day, they were the fastest ships ever to have been built ... [laughs] I was amazed to read that the Flying Cloud’s record of 89 days and 21 hours from New York to San Francisco stood ...