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Clipper ship : Golden Rocket

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    Orderly book of the bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale

    Manuscripts

    The volume contains the orders of Engineer-in-Chief Charles S. Bulkley, and Chief of Marine Charles M. Scammon from May 1865 to December 1866. The orders deal with the following issues: destinations for the ships including San Francisco, California, Victoria, B.C., Sitka, Alaska, the Bering Strait, Siberia and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiǐ, Russia; directions to certain ports; the rules and regulations of the expedition; the promotions, transfers, and punishments of sailors; work to be done by the land parties; ship repairs; the selling and buying of furs; and interactions with the native Alaskans. The volume also mentions the body of Robert Kennicott being brought aboard; Kennicott was the Chief of the Scientific Corps of the expedition and died in Alaska in May 1866.

    mssHM 67915

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    A clipper ship in a hurricane

    Visual Materials

    Publishers: Currier & Ives

    priJHK 00643

  • Wreck of the Clipper Ship “Golden Fleece” Off Fort Point, Bay of San Francisco

    Wreck of the Clipper Ship “Golden Fleece” Off Fort Point, Bay of San Francisco

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    Image of a vessel with broken masts shipwrecked against rocks. A man stands on the wreck's rear deck, there are rowboats pulling between the ship and the shore, and a small team tug is standing by. "Anthony & Baker del. sc. Published at the Wide West Office, Clay Street, Portsmouth Square."--text, below image. "Noisy Carrier's Publishing Hall. 77 [L]ong Wharf San Francisco. Charles P. Kimball Propretor [sic]."--stamped text, below image to the right. Paper color: gray.

    48052:090

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    Tom Swift and his rocket ship

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    Tom Swift, Jr., and his friend, Bud Barclay, enter an international space race hoping to orbit the earth in two hours.

    660735

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    Clipper ships done in cork models

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    488515

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    Rockets, jets, guided missiles and space ships

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