Clipper ships, a bibliography

• The American Neptune, pictorial supplement I, prints, paintings, photographs of American clipper ships.
  The Peabody Museum, Salem, 1959. 8vo, 32 pl.
• Annotated Bibliography of American and British Clipper Ships. Holdings in English in the G.W. Blunt White Library.
  Information Bulletin 69-2, np, (1969). A4, 16 pp.
• Log of Ship Hurricane, Capt. Samuel Very, Jr., from New York to San Francisco, 1854.
  The Marine Historical Association, Inc., Mystic, CT, 1931. 8vo, pp 9-39, ill.
• The White Star journal. Published weekly on board the clipper ship White Star during a passage from Liverpool, England, to Melbourne, Australia, with 600 emigrants, in the year 1855.
  Marine Historical Association, Mystic, 1951. 8vo, 36 pp. Facsimile reprint.
• anon.: Clipper Ships.
  Naval Science Vol. II (1873). pp 265-280, 2 plates.
• anon.: Fast runs by clipper ships.
  C.W. Swift, Yarmouth, MA, 1922. [4] pp. Letters prompted by a statement in Hergesheimer's Java Head concerning the speed of sailing vessels published in the Boston Herald.
• anon.: Some Ships of the Clipper Era, Their Builders, Owners and Captains. A Glance at an Interesting Phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it Relates to Boston.
  State Street Trust Co., Boston, 1913.
• Abbey, Charles Augustus: Before the Mast in the Clippers: Composed in Large Part of the Diaries of Charles A. Abbey Kept While at Sea in the Years 1856 to 1860.
  The Derrydale Press, 1937. 8vo, x, 283 pp, ill., 4 pl., 6 maps.
• Albion, Robert Greenhalgh: Square-Riggers on Schedule. The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports.
  Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1938. 8vo, xiv, 371 pp, ?? plates.
• Angel, W.H.: The Clipper Ship Sheila.
  Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston, 1923. fp, 286 pp, plates.
• Baker, William F.: Running her easting down: a documentary of the development and history of the British tea clippers culminating with the Cutty Sark.
  Caxton, Caldwell, ID, 1974. 4to, xvi, 170 pp, ill. xvi, 170 p., illus., 29 cm
• [Berenson, Bernard]: The origin and the chronology of the clipper ships.
  Berenson, Everett, WA, 1947. 12mo, 14 pp.
• Blaney, Henry: Journal of Voyages to China and Return, 1851-53.
  Privately printed, Boston, 1913.
• Blusse van oud-Alblas, A.: De geschiedenis van het clipperschip in Noord-Amerika, Engeland en Nederland.
  P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, Amsterdam, 1972. 8vo, 183 pp, ill, 23 pl.
• Boehmer, W. Richard: TREP Analysis of Champion of the Seas One Day Record Run.
  Nautical Research Journal vol. 24, Washington, 1978. pp 69-71, ill.
• Boehmer, Richard: A New Look at Some Old Sailing Speed Records.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 65, London, 1979. pp 163-167, ill.
• Boughton, Robert Lee: From clipper ship to clipper ship. A history of W.R. Grace & Co.
  1942.
• Bradlee, Francis B.C.: The Ship Great Republic and Donald McKay Her Builder
  The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1927. 8vo, fp, (2), 38 pp, 9 pl. Reprinted from the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute Volume LXIII.
• Bradley, Edward E.: Before the Mast of the Clipper Ship Mary Whitridge of Baltimore.
  The Marine Historical Association, Inc., Mystic, CT, 1932.
• Bray, Mary Matthews: A Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days.
  The Gorham Press, Boston, 1920.
• Brettle, Robert E.: The Cutty Sark: Her Designer and Builder.
  Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1969. 8vo, vi, 45 pp, ill., 3 pl.
• Brighton, Ray: Clippers of the Port of Portsmouth and the Men Who Built Them.
  Peter E. Randall, Portsmouth, NH, 1984. 8vo, 178 pp, ill. Portsmouth Marine Society Publication Five.
• Brown, Alexander C. comp.: Longboat to Hawaii. An Account of the Voyage of the Clipper Ship Hornet of New York Bound for San Francisco in 1866. As recorded in the journals of Capt. J.A. Mitchell, Master, and Henry and Samuel Ferguson, Passengers.
  Cornell University Press, Cambridge, MD [1974]. 254 pp.
• Brown, Robert: Spunyarn and spindrift. A sailorboy's log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper.Houlston, London, 1886. 12mo, viii, 391 pp.
• Burgess, Robert H., ed.: The Sea Serpent journal. Hugh McCulloch Gregory's voyage around the world in a clipper ship, 1854-55.
  Published for the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Va. by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, [1975]. 8vo, xviii, 142 pp, ill. Museum Publication No. 32.
• Campbell, George: China Tea Clippers.
  Adlard Coles, London, 1974. 4to, (8), 156 pp, ill.
• Carr, Frank G.G.: The Cutty Sark and the Days of Sail.
  Cutty Sark Society, London, nd. 8vo, (2), 24 pp, ill.
• Carse, Robert: The Moonrakers: The Story of Clipper Ship Men. Harper, New York, 1961. 176 pp, ill.
• Chapelle, Howard I.: The Baltimore Clipper. Its Origin and Development
  Bonanza Books, New York, nd/1930 (facs). 4to, xii, 192 pp, ill, 20 pl.
• Chapelle, Howard I.: The History of American Sailing Ships.
  Bonanza Books, New York, nd. +8vo, xvii, 400 pp, ill. 12 pl.
• Chapelle, Howard I.: The Search for Speed Under Sail 1700-1855.
  Bonanza Books, New York, 1967. +8vo, xiv, 451 pp, ill, 16 pl.
• Chase, Mary Ellen: Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships.
  Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1959.
• Clark, Admont G.: They built clipper ships in their back yard.
  Parnassus, Yarmouth Port, MA, [1963].8vo, 32 pp, ill.
• Clark, Arthur H.: The Clipper Ship Era. An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews 1843-1869.
  7 C's Press, Riverside, Conn., 1970 (facs av ou 1910). 8vo, xii, 406 pp, 70 pl.
• Colman, Moses Rich: Captain Moses Rich Colman, master mariner, Scituate, Massachusetts, 1807-1872. Letters of a Yankee clipper ship captain.
  Dorchester, MA, 1949. xiv, 119 pp, ill.
• Cosgrave, John O'Hara: Clipper ship. America's famous and fast-sailing queens of the sea.
  Macmillan Co., New York, 1963. 21 x 26 cm, [48] pp, ill.
• Crosse, John: Thermopylae and the Age of Clippers.
  Historian Publishers, Vancouver, 1968.
• Crothers, William L.: The American-Built Clipper Ship 1850-1856. Characteristics, Construction, Details.
  International Marine, Camden, ME, 1997. 4to, xxvi, (2), 530 pp, ill.
• Cutler, Carl C.: Five Hundred Sailing Records of American Built Ships.
  The Marine Historical Association, Mystic, 1952. 8vo, (2), 114 pp.
• Cutler, Carl C.: George Blunt Wendell: Clipper Ship Master.
  The Marine Historical Association, Inc., Mystic, CT, 1949.
• Cutler, Carl C.: Greyhounds of the Sea. The Story of the American Clipper Ship.
  United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland, 1960. +8vo, xxviii, 592 pp, ill, 46 pl.
• Cutler, Carl C.: Queens of the Western Ocean. The story of America's mail and passenger sailing lines.
  US Naval Institute, New York, 1967. +8vo, xxi, 672 pp, ill, 29 pl.
• Daniel, Hawthorne: The Clipper Ship.
  Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1928.
• Davis, Charles G.: U.S. Clipper ship, Sea Witch built at New York, 1846.
  Ship Studio, Cazenovia, NY, [1935]. 11 pp, ill.
• Davis, Charles G.: Ships of the Past.
  Bonanza Books, New York, nd (facs. of 1929 orig.). 8vo, x, 170 pp, ill., 39 pl.
• Douglas, John Scott: Fate of the clipper Westwind.
  Dodd, Mead Co., New York, 1958. vi, 250 pp.
• Dunbaugh, Edwin L. & Thomas, William duBarry: William H. Webb: Shipbuilder.
  Webb Institute of Naval Architects, Glen Cove, NY, 1989. 4to, xiv, 240 pp, ill., 4 plates.
• Evans, Robert: "Without regard for cost". The returns on clipper ships.
  Reprinted from the Journal of Political Economy, Feb. 1964. pp 32-43.
• Fairburn, William Armstrong: Merchant Sail.
  Fairburn Education Foundation, Inc., Center Lover, ME, 1945-1955. 6 vols.
• Ferguson, Henry: The Journal of Henry Ferguson, January to August, 1866.
  The Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Co., Hartford, CT, 1924.
• Forbes, Allan: The story of clipper ship sailing cards.
  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 1950. pp 227-273.
• French, Hollis: The Thatcher Magoun, and American Clipper Ship, Her Owners, and Model.
  Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, [1936]. xiv, 70 pp, ill. With a foreword by Alan Forbes.
• Gleason, Hall: Old Ships and Ship-building Days of Medford, 1630-1837.
  J.C. Mitter, Jr, West Medford, MA, 1936.
• Griswold, Frank Gray: Clipper Ships and Yachts.
  Duttons, New York, 1927.
• Hassell, Martha: The Challenge of Hannah Rebecca. An account of the experiences of a Clipper Ship Captain …
  Sandwich, 1986. 64 pp, ill. An account of a journey in the extreme clipper ship Callenger, 1855.
• Howe, Octavius T. & Matthews, Fredric C.: American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume I. Adelaide - Lotus.
  Marine Research Society, Salem, 1926. 4to, xvi, 372 pp, 57 pl.
  Argosy Antiquarian, New York, 1967 (facs.).
• Howe, Octavius T. & Matthews, Fredric C.: American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume II. Malay - Young Mechanic.
  Marine Research Society, Salem, 1927. 4to, x, pp 373-780, 57 pl.
  Argosy Antiquarian, New York, 1967 (facs.).
• Hubendick, Bengt: Klipperskepp.
  Zindermans, uo, 1982. 8vo, 179 pp, ill.
• Hulsman, Robert B.: The Career of the meduim clipper ship Andrew Jackson.
  1968.
• Hume, Cyril L. & Armstrong, Malcolm C.: The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1987. 8vo, (4), x, 182 pp, ill., 16 pl.
• Hurd, Edith Thacher: The Wreck of the Wild Wave. Being the true account of the wreck of the clipper ship Wild Wave of Boston.
  OUP, London, 1944. 12mo, 247 pp, ill.
• Hölzel, Wolfgang: Klipperschiffes des 19. Jahrhunderts.
  Delius Klasing & Co., Bielefeld, 1979 (2nd). 8vo, 82 pp, ill, 24 pl, 7 plans.
• Jennings, John Edward: Clipper Ship Days. The Golden Age of American Sailing Ships.
  Random House, New York, 1952.
• Judson, Clara Ingram: Donald McKay, Designer of Clipper Ships.
  Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1943.
• La Grange, Helen: Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 1833-1869.
  G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1936. 381 pp.
• Laing, Alexander: Clipper Ship Men.
  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York : [1944]. 8vo, [6], 3-279 pp, ill.
  Garden City Publ. Co, Garden City, 1950 (2nd). 8vo, (6), 279 pp, ill.
• Laing, Alexander: Clipper Ships and their Makers.
  Putnam, New York, 1966.
• Laing, Alexander: The Sea Witch. A Narrative of the Experiences of Capt. Roger Murray and Others in an American Clipper Ship during the Years 1846 to 1856.
  Murray Hill Books, New York, 1944/1933. 8vo, xii, (2), 487 pp, ill, 6 pl.
• Longridge, Nepean C.: The Cutty Sark. The Ship and the Model.
  Argus Books, Kings Langley, 1975/1933 (facs.). 2 vols, 8vo, xxix, 208 pp, ill, 11 pl, xi, 232 pp, ill.
• Low, Charles P.: Some Recollections of Captain Charles P. Low.
  Geo. H. Ellis Co., Boston, 1905.
• Low, William G.: A.A. Low & Brothers Fleet of Clipper Ships.
  np, (1919).
• Lubbock, Basil: The China Clippers.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1973/1919. +8vo, xiii, 295 pp, 26 plates.
• Lubbock, Basil: The Colonial Clippers.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1968. 8vo, xvi, 384 pp, 29 pl.
• Lubbock, Basil: The Down Easters. The Story of the Cape Horners.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1971. 8vo, xvi, 288 pp, 84 pl.
• Lubbock, Basil: The Log of the Cutty Sark.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1960/1945 (2nd). 8vo, xii, 332 pp, 51 pl.
• Lubbock, Basil: The Opium Clippers.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1976. 8vo, xvi, 392 pp, 55 pl.
• Lubbock, Basil: The Western Ocean Packets.
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1956 (New ed.). 8vo, xiv, 146 pp, 21 pl.
• Lyon, Jane D.: Clipper Ships and Captains.
  American Heritage Publ. Co., New York, c1962. 4to, 153 pp, ill.
• McCann, Ernest Armitage: The American clipper ship Benjamin F. Packard.
  New York, [c1930].
• MacGregor, David R.: British and American clippers. A comparison of their design, construction and performance in the 1850s.
  Conway Maritime Press, London, 1993. 4to, 192 pp, ill.
• MacGregor, David R.: The China Bird. The History of Captain Killick, and the Firm he Founded: Killick Martin & Company.
  Conway Maritime Press, London, 1986 (2nd rev.). 4to, 224 pp, ill.
• MacGregor, David R.: Clipper Ships.
  Model and Allied Publications, Watford, 1979. 8vo, vi, 154 pp, ill.
• MacGregor, David: Fast sailing ships 1775-1875. Nautical, Lymington, 1973. 4to.
• MacGregor, David R.: Fast Sailing Ships. Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875.
  Conway Maritime Press, London, 1988. 4to, 319 pp, ill.
• MacGregor, David R.: The Tea Clippers. An Account of the China Tea Trade and of some of the British Sailing Ships engaged in it from 1849 to 1869.
  Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich, 1972 (ou 1952). 8vo, xii, 272 pp, 7 pl.
• MacGregor, David R.: The Tea Clippers. Their History and Development 1833-1875.
  Conway Maritime Press, London, 1983 (2nd ed.). 4to, 256 pp, ill.
• McKay, Richard: Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder.
  7 C's Press, Riverside, Conn., 1969/1928 (facs.). +8vo, ccvii, 396 pp, 61 pl. A Study of the American Sailing Packet and Clipper Eras, with Biographical Sketches of America's Foremost Designer and Master-Builder of Ships, and a Comprehensive History of his Many Famous Ships …
• MacLean, Duncan: Clipper Ships and Packets 1851-1853.
  Reprinted by Log Chips, Washington D.C., 1952. (5), 59 pp. Published by John Lyman.
• (MacLean, Duncan): Description of the largest ship in the world, the new clipper Great Republic, of Boston, designed, built and owned by Donald McKay and commanded by Capt. L. McKay. Illustrated with Designs of her Construction. Written by a sailor.
  Eastburn's Press, Boston, 1853. 8vo, 17x9.5 cm, 24 pp, 6 folding plates.
  Two plates fold out to more than three feet in length. Shows the Great Republic rigged as a four-masted barque with double top-sails. The text was reprinted in The Nautical Gazette, 1913, in an article with the title Greatest Ships ever Built.
• Matheson, Marny: Clippers for the Record. The Story of Ship Thermopylae, S.S. Aberdeen and Captain Charles Matheson.
  Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, 1984. 8vo, (12), 161 pp, ill.
• [Millar, J.Y.]: Brief account of voyage around the world of the clipper sailing ship Maulesden in 1883.
  Oakland, CA, 1927. 22 pp.
• Mitchell, Josiah A.: The Diary of Captain Josiah A. Mitchell, 1866.
  The Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Co., Hartford, CT, 1924.
• Mjelde, Michael Jay: Glory of the Seas.
  The Marine Historical Assoc. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 1970. 4to, x, 303 pp, ill.
• Montagu, Robert: Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Ship-Building and the Rig of Clippers, with Suggestions for a New Method of Laying Down Vessels.
  Colburn and Co., London, 1852 (1st). 8vo, 13,5×7,5 cm, viii, 176 pp, ill.
  Colburn and Co., London, 1852 (2nd). 8vo, 13,5×7,5 cm, vi, 178 pp, 24, (2) pp adv., ill. Second edition published in the same year. A theoretical work, partly based on Chapman's parabolic theory of construction. With notes on the yacht America. Scott gives A.D. Mills as publishers.
• Munro, Donald John: The Roaring Forties and After.
  S. Low, Marston & Co., London, 1929.
• Newberry, Felix: The Story of the Cutty Sark. From tea clipper to training college.
  Belgravia Publications, London, 1938. 8vo, 22 pp, ill.
• Northrop, Everett H.: Florence Nightingale of the Ocean.
  United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY, 1959. Pamphlet.
• Perry, Frederick: Fair Winds & Foul. A Narrative of Daily Life Aboard an American Clipper Ship.
  Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston, & M. Hopkinson & Co., London, 1925. 8vo, xii, 204 pp, ill. 18 plates.
• Peters, Fred Joseph: Clipper ship prints. Including other merchant sailing ships.
  Antique Bulletin Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1930. 4to, [6], 9-107 [2] pp, ill.
• Prely, Esther Wilshire: The Saga of the Flyaway.
  Privately printed, Mt Vernon, New York, 1955.
• Ramsay, Robert: Rough and Tumble on Old Clipper Ships.
  D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1930. 297 pp.
• Richards, Jessica: Mistress of the western wind.
  Jove, New York, 1980. 8vo, 318 pp.
• Sargent, Henry Jackson: The Captain of the Phantom: The Story of Henry Jackson Sargent, Jr., 1834-1862, as Revealed in Family Letters.
  The Marine Historical Association, Inc., Mystic, CT, 1967.
• Schultz, Charles R.: Life on Board American Clipper Ships.
  Texas A. & M. University Sea Grant College Program, College Station, TX, 1983. 16×23 cm, (4), 32 pp, ill., 1 map, 1 plan.
• Sheldon, G.: The old packet and clipper service.
  pp [217]-237, ill.
• Shewan, Andrew: The Great Days of Sail. Some reminiscences of a Tea-clipper Captain.
  Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich, 1973. 8vo, 240 pp, 17 pl.
• Sill, Edward Rowland: Around the Horn: A Journal, December 10, 1861, to March 25, 1862.
  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1944.
• Smith, C. Fox: Ocean Racers.
  Philip Allan, Letchworth, 1931. 8vo, x, 245 pp, 12 pl.
• Smith, C. Fox: The Return of the Cutty Sark.
  Charles E. Lauriat, Boston, 1925.
• Smith, C. Fox: Tales of the Clipper ships.
  Methuen & Co., London, 1926. 159 pp.
• Smith, C. Fox: There Was a Ship. Chapters from the History of Sail.
  E.V. Mitchell, Hartford, CT, 1930. 12mo, viii, 201, [1] pp, plates.
• Spears, John Randolph: Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer, and Old-Time Sailor of the Sea.
  The Macmillan Co., New York, 1922.
• Stammers, Michael: The Passage Makers.
  Teredo Books, Brighton, 1978. +8vo, xxii, 508 pp, ill.
  The history of the Black Ball Line of Australian Packets, 1852-1871; of the men who founded the Company and guided its fortunes; of their ships and captains, some of whom were amongst the most famous in the annals of Maritime History and many of which have received little notice, of the emigrants both in the days of the Gold Rush and afterwards, and of the other ventures of this outstanding Shipping Company, together with the background to its operation.
• Stammers, Michael: Sail on the Mersey.
  Countyvise, Birkenhead, 1984. 4to, 36 pp, ill.
• Teenstra, Anno: De clippers. Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de snelste Nederlansche zeilschepen uit de twede helft der 19e eeuw.
  Holdert & Co., Amsterdam, 1945. 8vo, fp, xx, 306 pp, 46 pl.
• Villiers, Alan: The Cutty Sark, last of a glorius era.
  Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1971. 8vo, 96 pp, 8 pl.
• Wallace, Frederick William: Under Sail in the Last of the Clippers.
  Charles E. Lauriat Company, Boston, & Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1936. +8vo, x, (2), 251 pp, 41 pl.
• Webb, William Henry: This Book Contains Plans of Wooden Vessels, Selected as Types from One Hundred and Fifty of Various Kinds and Descriptions from Fishing Smacks to the Largest Clipper-ships and Vessels of War, Both Sail and Steam, built by Wm. H. Webb, in the City of New York, from the Year 1840 to the Year 1869.
  W.H. Webb, New York, c1870. 2 vols, oblong folio, 38x49 cm, (4) pp, 67 plates, 1 portrait, & (4) pp, 62 plates, 1 portrait. Reprinted in Nautical Research Journal, Vol. 34, 1989, pp 62-114. Second edition 1895.
• Wendell, George Blunt: George Blunt Wendell, Clipper Ship Master, 1831-1881.
  [Mystic], 1949. 207 pp, ill.
• Whipple, A.B.C.: The Challenge.
  William Morrow and Co, New York, 1987. 8vo, 320 pp, ill
• Whipple, A.B.C.: The Clipper Ships.
  Time-Life Books, Amsterdam, 1981. 4to, 176 pp, ill. The Seafarers Series.
• White, Benjamin Franklin: On the clipper ship Kathay. The journal of seaman Benjamin F. White on a voyage to Australia and China in 1856.
  Seacoast Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1990. 8vo, 81 pp, ill.

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