Rebekah, clipper barque,
366
Record days' runs, 179, 278;
see Best days' runs
Record passages:
transatlantic, 221, 247,
309 (steamer) ; Califor-
nia, westward, 144, 145-
6, 175, 178, 295, 296-
8, 298-300 (in sections);
eastward, 227; Pacific,
195-6, 218
China, 74, 329, 336-7
Australian, 281, 287, 333-
4
Red Gauntlet, Cal. clipper
ship, 233, 306, 359
Red jacket, clipper ship,
Australian service, 247,
270-2, 337, 346
Red Rover, Cal. clipper
ship, 216, 355; records,
253, 283, 368
Reed, Capt. Saml., Red
Jacket, 272
Reindeer, ship, 56
Reporter, Cal. clipper ship,
345, 359, 368
Republic, packet ship, 52
Rescue, Boston wrecking
steamer, 275
Resolute, clipper ship, 291
Resource, ship, 16
Rhinebeck, 47
Rhone, packet ship, 41, 44
Richardson, Capt. Josiah,
Stag Hound, 144, 178,
350; Staffordshire, 342,
352
Richie, Capt. A. A., Fair-
field, Cal., 189
Ringleader, Cal. clipper
ship, 359; records, 284,
290, 297, 299, 367, 368,
(to Melbourne)
—— later ship, 340
Robert C. Winthrop, Bos-
ton ship, 255
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Robert Lowe, Brit. aux.
steamer, 331
Roberts, Capt., Storm, 355
Robin Hood, Cal. clipper
ship, 250, 361; records,
299, 369
Robinson, Capt. Richard,
tea clippers, 199, 326,
355
Rockland, ship, 345
Rodger & Co., London,
owner of Taeping, 330
Rogers, S., Salem, owner,
136
—— Capt. Wm. C, Witch-
craft, 140-1, 350
Romance of the Seas, Cal.
clipper ship, 232, 233, 302,
345, 359; records, 248,
249, 296, 297, 367
Roosevelt & Joyce, builders,
N. Y., 209, 232
Ropes, Capt. John F., John
Gilpin, 345
Roscoe, packet ship, 41,
47
Roscius, packet ship, 40,
43
Rose, Brit, clipper schooner,
opium trade, 59
Ross, Sir John, explorer, 84
Rousseau, Phila. ship,
China trade, 16
Rowland, Capt., Mary L.
Sutton, 364
Royal Charter, Brit, iron
aux. steamer, 287
Royal William, first vessel
to cross Atlantic by steam
power, 313
Rufus Choate, Boston ship,
255
Russell, Capt., packets, 45
—— & Co., China mer-
chants, 58, 63, 64, 70, 97,
303
Russell Sturgis, Boston
ship, 255
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