Extreme clipper ship that sailed from 1851 to 1861
History
United States
Name
Stag Hound
Owner
George B. Upton, Sampson & Tappan, Boston
Builder
Donald McKay, East Boston
Launched
7 December 1850
Fate
Burned, 2 August 1861
General characteristics
Type
Extreme clipper
Tons burthen
1534 tons OM, 1100 tons British measurement
Length
226 ft. LOA
Beam
39 ft. 8 in.
Depth of hold
21 ft.
Sail plan
Nearly 11,000 square yards of canvas under full sail; foremast, mainmast, and mizzen.
Complement
36 ABs, 6 ordinary seamen, and 4 boys on maiden voyage under Capt. Josiah Richardson, Feb. 1, 1851[1]
Stag Hound was launched on December 7, 1850, in East Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by shipbuilder Donald McKay for the California trade, she was briefly the largest merchant ship in the world. She was in active service from 1851 until her total loss in 1861.
Stag Hound was to be the only true extreme clipper built by Donald McKay. He built many other clippers for speed, but no other clipper hulls were to have the 40" dead rise from half floor that this ship was to have. Many of his other ships are loosely called 'extreme' clippers, but after Stag Hound McKay changed his hull design concept; his yard focused on flat-floored medium clippers masted and sparred for speed up to, and even equal to, an extreme clipper hull.
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Howe, Octavius T; Matthews, Frederick C. (1927). American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume 2, Malay-Young Mechanic. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society. pp. 615–628.
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