Flying Cloud
built by Donald McKay
launched April 25, 1851
This web site contains information about the clipper ship Flying Cloud that had been compiled as part of an effort to build a model of the vessel.
Plans:
Flying Cloud plans drawn by Scott Bradner
Public domain plans of the Flying Cloud
Details:
A
work-in-progress of a collection of notes about various aspects
of the Flying
Cloud
Source material:
Flying Cloud documents – Books, articles and other material that contain information or images of the Flying Cloud.
Flying Cloud images – Drawings and paintings of the Flying Cloud.
Flying Cloud models – Some of the better models of the Flying Cloud
Flying Cloud plans – Blueprints and other plans of the Flying Cloud.
Clipper ship documents - Books, articles and other material that include information relevant to the design, construction, or operation of clipper ships in the last half of the 1800s.
References:
Henry Hall Notebooks for shipbuilding in the United States, 1881-1883 - Volume II, Models and Measurements, dated March 24, 1883. Courtesy of Penobscot Marine Museum (Manuscript number MS 408) - Flying Cloud material from the Hall notebooks.
Flying Cloud deck and mast layouts – a comparison of the mast layouts and deck arrangements shown by different Flying Cloud plans or images by Scott Bradner.
Duncan
McLean - Details of
Donald McKay clipper ships taken from Duncan McLean's articles in the
Boston Daily Atlas
Flying Cloud by Bruce M. Lane - large
manuscript of details on the Flying Cloud compiled in the 1950s & 60s
Flying Cloud table of offsets, from a 1934 plan by
W.A. White
Flying Cloud table of offsets, created by Bruce M. Lane from a plan perhaps drawn by Mary McKay