Talk:Sovereign of the Seas (clipper)

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Speed record?[edit]

The USA 17 (yacht) article claims faster speeds than the ones here. LRT24 (talk) 11:22, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Such speeds can be reached by sailing vessels with planing hulls. The claim made in this article is for a ship. Kablammo (talk) 14:31, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speed record for a threemasted full-rigger (square rigger)[edit]

Today, I read the message in the news (https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltumseglung-101.html Stand: 26.01.2017 12:54 Uhr), that the Triamaran IDEC (4?) under french skipper Francis Joyon has set a new speed record, sailing in the "Cup Jules Verne" around the world plus twice the distance Bay of Biscay/South Atlantic. In 40 days, 23 hours and 30 Minutes it made 45.000 Kilometers or 24298,056 sea miles, that means an average speed of 45,755 km/h or 24,706 knots = sm/h. Now, if You really insist that such a one-masted three-hull-triamaran should never be called a sail-ship, then You should call good old "Sovereign of the Seas a three-masted full-rigger (square rigger), a wooden clipper built for sea-trade". That would make the difference in classes to the sail-race-machine built from plastic in 2016 clear. (87.173.111.195 (talk) 20:22, 26 January 2017 (UTC))[reply]

Delivery of locomotive to San Francisco[edit]

How could she deliver a locomotive in 1869 after sinking in 1859 ? Additionally, I couldn't find this info in the source. (Search for Number 150 and name of ship did not help; haven't read the whole page, though.) --94.245.249.216 (talk) 23:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The vessel from 1869 was a new ship, built in 1868, which took the same.[1][2] I deleted the section. Kablammo (talk) 14:50, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]