Game Cock (clipper)

History

United States
Name:	Game Cock
Owner:	Daniel C. Bacon, Boston, MA
Builder:	Samuel Hall, East Boston, MA
Launched:	Dec. 21, 1850
Out of service:	Feb. 1880
Fate:	Condemned Feb. 1880 at the Cape of Good Hope
Notes:	“Designed by Samuel H. Pook or Samuel Hall (disputed)”
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	1391 tons
Length:	200 ft (61 m) LOA
Beam:	40 ft (12 m)
Draft:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Notes:	2 decks ^[1]

The Game Cock was a clipper ship known for its long sailing life of 29 years and 2 months.^[1] Its principal route was the New York to San Francisco run.

Construction

A game cock with neck extended served as the ship's figurehead. Game Cock was considered either a medium or extreme clipper.^[2] Its materials were similar to the Surprise.^[3]

Voyages

Game Cock sailed between New York City and San Francisco. The ship put in for repairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1851, and made voyages to Bombay in 1851, and Batavia in 1859.^[2]

References

1 2 Crothers, William L. (1997). The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, Details. Camden, ME: International Marine. pp. xv. ISBN 0070145016.
1 2 Bruzelius, lars (1998-04-09). "Clipper ships: "Game Cock" (1850)". The Maritime History Virtual Archives. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
↑ "The New Clipper Ship "Game Cock", of Boston.". Boston Daily Atlas. 1851-01-29. Retrieved 2012-03-14.

External links

American clipper ship Game Cock, Hansen, J., artist and lithographer Nagel & Weingaertner (1849–1857), printer
Game Cock at Whampoa, painting by Gordon Grant (1875–1962)
Lithograph of clipper Game Cock
"The New Clipper Ship "Game Cock", of Boston.". Boston Daily Atlas. 1851-01-29. Retrieved 2012-03-14.

Clipper ships, designers and builders

American-built early clippers (in year order)	Anglona (1840) Ariel (1842) Houqua (1844)

American-built extreme clippers, 1845–50 (in year order)	Rainbow (1845) Sea Witch (1846) Memnon (1848) Ticonderoga (1849) Game Cock (1850) Race Horse (barque) (1850) Sea Serpent (1850) Stag Hound (1850) Surprise (1850) Witchcraft (1850)

American-built extreme clippers, 1851–55	Blue Jacket (1854) Challenger (1853) Champion of the Seas (1854) Comet (1851) Flying Cloud (1851) Golden West (1852) Great Republic (barque) (1853) Hornet (1851) Ino (1851) James Baines (1854) John Gilpin (1852) Lightning (1853) N.B. Palmer (1851) Nightingale (1851) Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade (1854) Onward (1852) Red Jacket (1853) Shooting Star (1851) Sovereign of the Seas (1852) Sunny South (1854) Syren (1851) Sweepstakes (1853) Swordfish (1851) Westward Ho! (1852) White Swallow (1853) Witch of the Wave (1851) Young America (1853)

American-built medium clippers, 1851–55	Andrew Jackson (1855) Antelope of Boston (1851) Carrier Dove (1855) Carrier Pigeon (1852) Celestial Empire (1852) Flying Childers (1852) Ganges (1854) Golden Fleece (1855) Harriet Hoxie (1851) Herald of the Morning (1853) Kingfisher (1853) Lookout (1853) Mary Robinson (1854) Starlight (1854)

American-built clippers and medium clippers, 1856–59	King Philip (1856) Seminole (1865) Thatcher Magoun (1856)

American-built clippers and medium clippers, 1860s	Cremorne (1863) Shooting Star (1867)

British-built "Aberdeen" clippers, 1839–58	Challenger (1852) Lammermuir (1856) Lord of the Isles (1853) Mimosa (1853) Robin Hood (1856) Stornoway (1850)

British-built newer style clippers, 1859–70	Ariel (composite) (1865) Blackadder (iron) (1870) Cimba City of Adelaide (composite) (1864) Cutty Sark (composite) (1869) Fiery Cross (1860) Flying Spur (1860) Hallowe'en (iron) (1870) Lahloo (composite) (1867) Lammermuir (composite) (1864) Leander (composite) (1867) Lothair (composite) (1870) Norman Court (composite) (1869) Serica (1863) Sir Lancelot (composite) (1865) Taeping (composite) (1863) Taitsing (composite) (1865) Tayleur (iron) (1864) Thermopylae (composite) (1868)

Dutch-built clippers	California Kosmopoliet Stad Amsterdam Cisne Branco Shabab Oman II

Canadian-built clippers	Marco Polo (1851) Stag (1854)

American designers and builders	Curtis, James O. Curtis, Paul Curtis, Paul & Taylor Fernald & Pettigrew Griffiths, John Willis McKay, Donald Palmer, Nathaniel Pook, Samuel Hartt Webb, William H Westervelt, Jacob A.

British designers and builders	Linton, Hercules Lithgow, William Russell, John Scott Scott & Linton Pile, William Robert Steele & Company

Surviving 19th century clippers	City of Adelaide Cutty Sark

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