![]() ![]() Her journey here was not without incident, and we are fortunate to have an opportunity to once again walk the decks of this proud ship. The iconic clipper ship Cutty Sark has come back to life in her new all-weather Greenwich dry dock on the eastern edge of London, not far from where tea clippers once brought cargos of tea into the warehouses of the East India Company. Unconditional Love: The Letters of John & Abigail Adams.250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.Bradford Hudson, "Cunard in Boston," Boston Hospitality Review, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration, February 1, 2015. The building still exists, with the Cunard name chiseled in its stone facade. In the early 1900s, Cunard had its headquarters building at 126 State Street in Boston. Its piers were in East Boston, evidently always at the southern end. The Cunard line had a special relationship with Boston. Steamships like those of the Cunard line eclipsed the clipper ships and other sailing ships. Period maps place his yard consistently near Central Square, at the bend in Border Street. See my book Summer Suffragists for a bit more information about Samuel Hall and his shipyard. Of course, McKay's and Smith's shipyards were not the only ones operating in East Boston. Note: maps on this page are placed from newest (at top) to oldest (at bottom). H., Noble, John, and Tappan & Bradford, ġ852 map by McIntyre, H., Friend & Aub, and Wagner & M'Guigan, ġ866 map by Crafts, N. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. ![]() See the following maps, available from the Norman B. ![]() The maps also show a different location for Smith's shipyard. Įarly maps show McKay's shipyard had a different location, close to the one noted above, but south of White Street. įragments from the original ways of the McKay shipyard, and related items, are at the Mariners' Museum and Park. Ī painting supposedly owned by McKay shows Boston and the Harbor from Donald McKay's Shipyard. Other views of the shipyard are from 1853 (Naval History and Heritage Command),, and 1855 (great photo by Southworth & Hawes at Boston Museum of Fine Arts). The shipyard must have been a busy place. (One of my sources notes "1847-1870," the period he owned the yard.) A nice image of the diorama by Daderot is at. The Boston Museum of Science has a diorama showing McKay's shipyard as of July 1852. Bailey & Co., 1879), BPL/Digital Commonwealth, Digital Commonwealth,, and State Library of Massachusetts. Bailey (which I used in the book) shows the location of Smith's shipyard, as well as the Cunard pier. This is where the firm built the clipper ships Centennial (1875) and Paul Revere (1876). It was directly across the Boston Harbor channel from Charlestown. Hopkins & Co., 1874), plate I, pages 42-43 (Cunard), and plate L, pages 52-53 (Smith & Townsend). 4: including East Boston, City of Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop (Philadelphia: G. Hopkins, Atlas of the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, vol. The excellent 1874 map shows Smith's firm, Smith & Townsend, with a shipyard at the former McKay shipyard location at the foot of White Street. McKay's shipyard later became Sylvanus Smith's shipyard, according to 18 maps. See Steven Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018), 168, 178, 334. In 1870, creditors seized Donald McKay's assets, including his shipyard. It does not mention Cunard, but it shows a "passenger's house." The 1868 map shows what would later be the Cunard pier in the southern part of East Boston (plate 73). ![]() Sanborn, Insurance map of Boston: volume 2 (1868), plate 79, Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. This was just two blocks from McKay's house. It shows the McKay shipyard at the foot of White Street, at Border Street, in the northern part of East Boston. I think this is in error.Īn old map from 1868 tells a different story. Steven Cecil, "Skyscrapers of the Seas," Architecture Boston website, posted March 1, 2018. One source says it was in the southern part of East Boston, where the famous English passenger steamship company, the Cunard Line, later built its pier. (McKay would sell his house in the early 1870s.) Both houses were next to a reservoir, now the site of East Boston High School. In 1872, the family moved a few blocks north to a house he built at 76 White Street, on Eagle Hill, next to the house of the most noted clipper ship builder, Donald McKay. He arrived in East Boston during the peak production of clipper ships and retired at or after the end of the clipper ship era. Sylvanus Smith, profiled in my book Summer Suffragists, was a shipbuilder in East Boston. ![]()
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