Sunday, April 17, 2011

Seafaring Sunday: Neptune's Car

April 16, 1853: The famous clipper ship Neptune's Car was launched out of Portsmouth, Virginia.

Header: Clipper ship Lightning via njscuba.net

2 comments:

Timmy! said...

Ahoy, Pauline! Nice painting. That's a lot of sails they've got out there...

Pauline said...

Ahoy, Timmy! Well they had to hurry on around the Horn and then off from San Francisco to China. Studding sails and pocket handerkerchiefs out. Those were the days.