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The Tea Clipper Sea Witch

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The Sea Witch was built by the firm Smith & Dimon of New York for owners Howland & Aspinwall, in 1846, and placed under the command of the infamous Captain Robert Bully Waterman.

The year before, the same builders and owners had created the clipper ship Rainbow, the first of the Yankee Tea Clippers, with the so called Baltimore bow that gave it concave bows that some thought couldn‘t sail.

These ships where built to carry the high value cargo of China Tea very quickly so speed, not capacity was the main influence in their design.

The Sea Witch sailed from New York to Hong Kong in just 74 days in 1849, a record for sail not broken until 2003.

On March 26th Sea Witch was wrecked off Cuba in a declined condition carrying Chinese coolies ….a sad end for such a beautiful ship!

24 x 18 inch Acrylic on canvas

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