Clipper Ship Red Jacket 1854 Postcard

Clipper Ship Red Jacket In the Ice off Cape Horn, on Her Passage from Australia, to Liverpool August 1854 The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous, with strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs. The clipper ship Red Jacket was one of the largest and fastest American clipper ships ever built. It was built in Rockland, Maine and launched in 1853. The ship was famous for its speed, and was designed with a 255-foot deck. In 1883, the Red Jacket was sold to Blandy Brothers, a Portuguese shipping company in the Madeira Islands as a coaling hulk. In 1885, the ship was driven ashore in a heavy gale. The wreckage sold for £113. Totalling about $113.93 US dollars in 1885.