&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Fitz_Hugh_Lane,_Ship_Starlight.jpg) Starlight, by Fitz Hugh Lane
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Starlight, changed to |
| Owner | Baker & Morrill, Boston |
| Builder | E.&H.O. Briggs, South Boston |
| Launched | Feb. 11, 1854 |
| Renamed | R. Protolongo or Proto Longo |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Medium clipper |
| Tons burthen | 1153 tons |
| Length | 190 ft (58 m). LOA |
| Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
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Starlight was a medium clipper built in 1854 in South Boston, Massachusetts that made nine passages from New York City or Boston to San Francisco. The ship was known in its day for "making passages faster than average".[1] Starlight is better remembered today as the subject of two paintings by artist Fitz Hugh Lane.[1] Starlight was described as having "spacious staterooms" and a figurehead resembling "the representation of an antediluvian bird of Paradise spliced into a mermaid".[2]
- ^ a b Howe, Octavius T.; Matthews, Frederic C. (1927). American Clipper Ships, 1833–1858. Vol. 2, Malay – Young Mechanic. Salem, MA. pp. 628–630.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Bruzelius, Lars (1997). "The New Clipper Ship "Shooting Star", of Boston". "Boston Daily Atlas", March 2, 1854. The Maritime History Virtual Archives. Retrieved October 2, 2015.