Nautical Research Journal


planksheer and the carved work on the navel hoods terminate, she has the full fi gure of an angel on the wing, with a trumpet raised to her mouth. T e fi gure is fi nely designed and exceedingly well executed and is a beautiful fi nish to the bow. It is the work of Mr. Gleason, who made the fi gure-head of the Shooting Star. Her hood ends are bolted alternately from either side, through each other and the stem, so that the loss of her cutwater would not aff ect her safety or cause a leak.


21. A rare painting attributed to Samuel Walters, renowned for his ac- curacy. Artnet.


For Donald McKay’s second, most famous extreme clipper, Flying Cloud, launched a mere four months later, Duncan MacLean adds an even more intriguing observation about the ruggedness of the McKay bow:


T e New Clipper Ship Flying Cloud, of New York


She has neither head nor trail boards, but forming the extreme, where the line of the


Review the modeling history of McKay’s most famous clipper Flying Cloud. Every model of this magnifi cent vessel depicts the bow as a plain stem with the fi gurehead tacked on beneath the bowsprit almost as an aſt erthought. Nowhere is there a hint of the important navel hoods or cutwater. So thoroughly have these devices been lost to history that even a specially-built three-quarter scale Flying Cloud replica constructed in 1966 lacked these


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22. Detail from Figure 21. Artnet.


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