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THE RED JACKET
 Red Jacket Art Print Macgregor, Robert Buy at AllPosters.com The Red Jacket, Lightning’s great rival, was designed by Samuel A. Pook, of Boston, he well-known designer of Game-cock, Surprise, Northern Light, Ocean Telegraph, Herald of the Morning, and other famous clipper ships. She was built by George Thomas at Rockland, Maine, for Messrs. Seacomb & Taylor, and only took the water a few days before the Lightning. Her measurements were:
Though her bow and stern were very sharp and beautifully modeled and she had concave bow lines, she was not so extreme a ship as the Lightning. Donald Mackay’s ships were chiefly distinguished for their powerful workmanlike appearance rather than for delicate beauty--they showed strength rugged and unmistakable, but the Red Jacket’s strength was more disguised under graceful curves; for instance, she had the graceful arched stem and clipper bow of a China ship, whereas Lightning’s stem was almost straight with only a very slight curve in it. Red Jacket was not named after Tommy Atkins, but after a great Indian chief, and her figure-head was a beautiful representation of this warrior in all the magnificence of feather head-dress and beaded buckskins. |
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