creesy

Updated: May 7, 2025

There had to be the strength to battle with the furious tempests of Cape Horn and at the same time the driving power to sweep before the sweet and steadfast tradewinds. Such a queenly clipper was the Flying Cloud, the achievement of that master builder, Donald McKay, which sailed from New York to San Francisco in eighty-nine days, with Captain Josiah Creesy in command.

Ralph Delahaye Paine - The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors