The clipper ship Typhoon.

It is a novel sight to see the clipper ship Typhoon lying flat on her side at a wharf, with her vast spars hanging like the boughs of a tree over the heads of the passersby, and touching the eaves of a warehouse. The curious spectacle causes a universal halt to both the idle and the busy. But there she is, lying just as snugly as though in her natural position -- a steam pump in a lighter is puffing away to relieve her of the water she has taken in, while on the other side is a swarm of busy workmen running along under keel, and hammering at her seams, and replacing the copper to keep the same element out, Typhoon requires to be hove over on both sides; have the copper on the larboard side stripped; false keel refastened and repairs made permanent.

San Francisco Herald, July 16, 1853.

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius

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