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The Flying Cloud, a clipper ship, was the masterpiece of Donald McKay the most accomplished marine architect and shipbuilder of his time. She was launched from east Boston in 1851. The Flying Cloud acquired a reputation for sailing faster than any other ship of her time. On one record breaking occasion, she made the passage from New York to San Francisco in 88 days, a feat never again achieved by a sail powered ship. The Flying Cloud met an unfortunate end however, when she was lost at sea in 1874.
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