Eagle Wing

A medium clipper ship built in 1853 by James O. Curtis, Medford, MA, USA. Dimensions 198'×39'×23' and tonnage 1174 tons. Required 600 tons of ballast to be able to stand without a cargo.

1853 October 4: Launched at the shipyard of by James O. Curtis, Medford, MA, for Chase & Tappan, Boston.
1853-1855: Under command of Captain Ebenezer H. Linnell.
1853 December 20 - April 5: Sailed from Boston to San Franciso in 105 days. Crossed the Pacific Equator 82 days out. [Cutler has a total passage of 115 days]
1855 April 17 - July 10: Sailed from London to Hong Kong in 84 days 22 hours anchor to anchor.
1854 July 31 - December 4: Sailed from Foochow to London in 113 days, having lost the mizzenmast and received other rigging damage on the voyage.
1855 April 17 - July 10: Sailed from London to Hong Kong in 83 days 12 hours pilot to pilot.
1855 November 22 - February 16: Sailed from Shanghai to New York in 86½ days.
1855: Captain Waters replaced Captain Linnell who had been appointed master of the new clipper ship Flying Mist.
1856 March 25 - July 23: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 118 days. Was 100 miles from the Golden Gate when 112 days out.
1858 February 4: Sailed from Shanghai to New York in 103 days.
1858 June 30 - November 10: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 131 days. In command of Captain Thomas Worth.
1859 March 13 - June 3: Sailed from Hong Kong to New York in 82 days. In command of Captain Worth.
1859 October 6 - February 3: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 120 days. In command of Captain Worth.
1860: Sailed from San Franciso to New York in 90 days.
1860 October 8 - February 11: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 122 days. In command of Captain Colby.
1862-1863: Under command of Captain Ebenezer H. Linnell.
1862: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 119 days.
1863 July 18: Arrived at Falmouth 133 days out from Akyab.
1864: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 140 days. Captain Linnell who was killed in an accident and command of the ship was assumed by the Mate Morrisson. He was subsequently discharged after having been found selling the ship's stores in San Francisco.
1864: Sailed from San Francisco to Boston in 98 days.
1865 February 11: Sailed from Boston for Bombay under command of Captain Hickey and was lost on the way. Posted missing in October the same year.

The lines of the Eagle Wing has been published in the The Historic American Merchant Marine Survey (1983).

References:

Clipper ships, general references.
Cutler, Carl C.: Greyhounds of the Sea. The Story of the American Clipper Ship.
United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland, 1960.
Fairburn, William Armstrong: Merchant Sail.
Fairburn Education Foundation, Inc., Center Lover, ME, 1945-1955.
Howe, Octavius T. & Matthews, Fredric C.: American Clipper Ships 1833-1858.
Marine Research Society, Salem, 1926-1927.
McLean, Duncan: The New Clipper Ship Eagle Wing, of Boston.
The Boston Daily Atlas, December 1, 1853

Updated 2000-08-16 by Lars Bruzelius

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