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4 ENGLISH BRIG--THIS RIG IS SELDOM SEEN sage in 89 days. This famous vessel made in all 21 successful voyages to India, the running time for a single one never exceeding 100 days. It remained for John Willis Grif- fiths, however, to design a ship on en- tirely new lines; a ship that outsailed any previous vessel that floated-close hauled or running free. This vessel, the famous Rarinsow, had a sharp en- trance with a double curve at the water line which ran with easy lines to the midship KO section where the 5 greatest beam was located. From the midship section, the under- : FULL RIGGED SHIP RAINBOW--THIS CRAFT DESIGNED, BY JOHN WIL THE MARINE REVIEW IN AMERICAN WATERS body tapered to the after end with lines almost as fine as those forward. Dis- carding the codfish like underbody, Griffiths gave his model a dead rise amidships. Predictions were freely offered that the vessel would never float, let alone "stand- a press . of canvas, but after she was launched she more than fulfilled her builder's ex- pectations. The Rarinzow sailed in February, 1645,. for. Chita... Back home in September, her EVOLUTION IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE LIS GRIFFITHS WAS THE ORIGINAL CLIPPER July, 1929 first voyage netted her owners Over 200 per cent of her initial cost. It must be borne in mind that jt did not cost a fortune to build 4a ship in those days for the Rarnzow, Teady for sea, cost her owners but $25,000, She cleared for China again in October 1845, and as the months passed by with no news of her, she was given up for lost. Finally one day she was sighted off Sandy hook. The reason that she had not been heard from was that she brought the news of her own ar- rival at Canton. She was commanded by Captain Land. She was 92 days in making China on this famous voyag> as she was compelled to beat up the China sea against contrary winds. On the home run, she made the distance in 88 days. She made a sensation dur- ing her short life and is supposed to have been lost off Cape Horn in 1848. On this voyage Land was not master. Sea Witch Establishes Record The Ratnpow's lines were freely copied, both in this country and in Eng- land and thus began the real clippe- ship days. Griffiths designed another crack ship, the SEA WitcH. When she cleared Sandy hook on Christmas eve, 1846, she was the largest ship afloat. She carried more canvas than a ship of the line of twice her tonnage. She made some famous voyages out. to China and back and her passage from China to New York in 77 days has never been beaten by a sailing vessel. The gold rush of 1849 was an in- SHIP AND MARKED 4 DISTINCT