John W. Griffiths
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John Willis Griffiths was an American naval architect who was influential in his design of clipper ships and his books on ship design and construction. He also designed steamships and war vessels and
John W. Griffiths
Oil portrait of Griffiths
John Willis Griffiths Treatise
Monthly Nautical Magazine First Issue October 1854 cropped
Rainbow (clipper)
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Rainbow, launched in New York in 1845 to sail in the China trade for the firm Howland & Aspinwall, was a clipper, a type of sailing vessel designed to sacrifice cargo capacity for speed.
John W. Griffiths
…nineteenth-century shipbuilders.” In 1845 Griffiths was employed for the shipbuilding firm of Smith & Dimon in lower Manhattan and designed the clipper ship Rainbow. Historian Dr. Larrie Ferreiro considered the Rainbow “the first of a line of ‘extreme’ clippers, with a fine, raked bow, high deadrise, and hollow…
Clipper Ship Rainbow
plans and elevation of Rainbow.
Main topgallant mast