The Clipper Ship Hurricane.

Log of Voyage from New-York to San Francisco.

The clipper ship Hurricane, Captain Very, left New-York on the evening of May 27th, and arrived in San Francisco on the afternoon of September 4th; making the passage, with light winds and calms, in 99 days and 18 hours.

The Hurricane was 22 days and 16 hours to the Equator, having sailed 4,090 miles. Forty-seven days and sixteen hours out, Cape Horn was doubled. Seventy-six days and 16 hours out, crossed the Equator, in longitude 117° 36' West. On the 82d day out, was 1,040 miles from that port; and it will be remembered that, in the celebrated passage of the Flying Cloud, in 1851, she was 887 miles from San Francisco on her 85th day out. By the log, the Hurricane sailed 17,384 miles, from port to port, averaging 7.16 miles an hour during the passage. She was from 5 to 15 hours each day in dead calms, off the Horn.

Date.	Dist. Sailed. Miles.	Wind.
May 27	38	N.N.W.
" 28	202	N. to W.
. . .
July 5	288	N.E.
. . .
Sept. 1	171	N.N.W.
" 2	172	Do.
" 3	140	N.E. by N.
" 4	35	S., light airs.

The U.S. Nautical Magazine, Vol. I (1854), pp ??-??.

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius.

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