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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8318482, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1972 Longines Symphonette</b></p><p><b>Flying Cloud</b></p><p><b>40mm 34 gr. Sterling Silver</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473133[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473134[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world&#039;s sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours.</p><p>The ship held this record for over 100 years, from 1854 to 1989.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473135[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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