... Age of Sail, when the "clipper" ships skimmed across the oceans in a glorious but futile challenge to the Age of Steam. Although the days of the clipper were numbered almost before they began, the names of the most famous of them were�...
... age of sail THE GOLDEN age of sail has gone now. No more the splendor of white sails billowing, the music of wind singing in the rigging, the satisfaction of bows hissing through the ocean, carrying. costly cargoes to exotic ports. Only�...
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL. China tea and Australian wool were responsible for the Golden Age of Sail, when the "clipper" ships skimmed across the oceans of the world in a glorious but futile challenge to the Age of Steam. Although the days�...
... age of sail," could not do the trip in less than three months, To-day modern oil- burning, electrically-driven boats, take five weeks to complete the 12,000-inilo journey to Europe. Australia's Import and export trade both depend on sea�...
... age of sail. He would begin where the age of sail left off. by harnessing a combination of power and wind. The difference would be that where 18th-century .seamen took advantage of the two because they didn't know if they could rcl> on�...
... age of sail and stately clipper ships, 85-year-old Captain Hartley Watson, of ffillinms- toivn, is going to sea under canvas once again. He will pilot a 42-foot racht on a three weeks' irulse to Sydney, leaving >ort Phillip Bay on The�...
... , &c., and if these could reappear at the Quay prob ably they would create more interest than the present-day liners, but the "golden age of sail" has ceased and is never likely to be revived. John Duthie limn, but at.
... Age of Sail (1/5), the clipper ships were at their zenith in the eighteen fifties. The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae did not come into the Australian clipper class. They were built for the tea clipper class— vessels of approximately 1000�...
... age of sail. Shore establishments and epots were built and commissioned and, in 1913. the Irst class of officer-cadets ntered the Royal Australian laval College In temporary juarters at Geelong. shifting n 1915 to Jervis Bay. [T. was. on.
... age of sail, with 20th- century technology employed to operate six enormous triangular sails suspended from masts that. • • •. tower 187 feet above the water. The computer system is intended to monitor wind direction and velocity and to�...