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The "James Baines" sailed from Boston to Liverpool in 12 days and 6 hours, and broke the sailing record between these two ports. THE JAMES BAINES SAILED FROM BOSTON TO LIVERPOOL IN TWELVE DAYS AND SIX HOURS AND BROKE THE SAILING RECORD BETWEEN THESE TWO PORTS
 jurisdiction over the sea within three miles of the shore, but these three miles are usually reckoned from promontories, and not necessarily from the coast-line, so that a nation may have control of a vast area of water and several hundred miles from shore. =Old Time Ships.=--The glory of the American merchant service, so far as sailing vessels are concerned, has passed into history. Comparatively few sailing vessels, save coasting schooners, ply the seas, as steam has taken the place of sail. The majority of old ship captains are either dead or commanding ocean liners or coastwise steamers. In the old days, sailing clipper ships made the trip from New York to San Francisco in one hundred days, while the voyage of ordinary ships was two or three times as long. The old ship "Lightning" sailed from Boston to Liverpool at a greater speed than that obtained by any steamship of its day, the vessel often logging over 500 miles in 24 hours, and it made the trip in a little less than 14 days. GS WORTH KNOWING THIS IS THE LIBER VOX RECORDING ALL LIBER VOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBERVOX DOT ORG RECORDING BY ADEL POOLEY ONE THOUSAND THINGS WORTH KNOWING BY NATHANIEL C FOWLER JUNIOR OLD TIME SHIPS THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT SERVICE SO FAR AS SAILING VESSELS ARE CONCERNED HAS PASSED INTO HISTORY COMPARATIVELY FEW SAILING VESSELS SAVE COASTING SCHOONERS PLY THE SEAS AS STEAM HAS TAKEN THE PLACE OF SAIL THE MAJORITY OF OLD SHIP CAPTAINS ARE EITHER DEAD OR COMMANDING OCEAN LINERS OR COAST WISE STEAMERS IN THE OLD DAYS SAILING CLIPPER SHIPS MADE THE TRIP FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN ONE HUNDRED DAYS WHILE THE VOYAGE OF ORDINARY SHIPS WAS TWO OR THREE TIMES AS LONG THE OLD SHIP LIGHTNING SAILED FROM BOSTON TO LIVERPOOL AT A GREATER SPEED THAN THAT OBTAINED BY ANY STEAMSHIP OF ITS DAY THE VESSEL OFTEN LOGGING OVER FIVE HUNDRED MILES IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS AND IT MADE THE TRIP IN A LITTLE LESS THAN FOURTEEN DAYS
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