![]() Location Currently not on view Credit Line Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection 19th century ID Number 2005.0279.092 accession number 2005.0279 catalog number 2005.0279.092 Object Name ship model Physical Description wood (overall material) cloth (overall material) Measurements overall: 21 in x 37 in x 6 1/2 in 53.34 cm x 93.98 cm x 16. It and a painting of the Great Republic were donated to the Smithsonian by the CIGNA Corporation, the successor company to INA. Built by an unknown 19th century craftsman, this model was purchased at a New York antique shop by the Insurance Company of North America (INA) in 1962. INA archives do not have a copy of the policy, so there is no record of the exclusions that might have prompted this action. The day after the fire, the premium was returned and the policy was cancelled. However, INA never paid for the damage to the ship. The Insurance Company of North America (INA) insured Great Republic for $175,000.00 in 1853. Tonnage was 404 and the owners of this ship were Commander Low and a partner of him. This ship was built with wood and embedded with steel and had two decks. The Bark Theoxena was built in Thomaston, Maine in 1848. Length 328 feet width 48 feet 16 Bark Theoxena Clipper ship. It was lost off Bermuda during a winter 1872 hurricane. Characteristics of the clipper ship three Brothers. After the war, it was sold to British owners in 1869, it was resold to the Merchant’s Trading Company of Liverpool, England and renamed Denmark. Under Northern owners, it engaged in the California trade for the remainder of the conflict. It was confiscated by the North during the Civil War, since a majority of its owners were Southerners. The great clipper transported general and bulk cargoes all over the world for the next several years. During its rebuilding, it lost a deck and was reduced to 3,357 tons its spars and area also were greatly reduced. The wreck was sold, raised and towed to Green Point, Long Island, where it was rebuilt by Sneeden & Whitlock. Despite best efforts to save it, Great Republic burned to the water surface. To save the hull, it was scuttled, or deliberately sunk in place at the pier. The night before its maiden voyage began on the East River, Manhattan, Great Republic was destroyed by a fire that broke out on shore and spread to the ship. The ship was being fitted out for its first voyage under the management of Grinnell, Minturn, and Company. McKay was unable to secure financial backing for the building of Great Republic, so he built the ship on his own account. The huge wooden ship was the largest extreme clipper ship ever constructed. It measured 335 feet in length, 53 feet in beam, 38 feet in depth of hold and 4,555 tons. Object Details unknown Description Great Republic was built by Donald McKay in Boston in 1853. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.We’re obliged by EU General Data Protection Regulation to let you know about this right we don’t actually intend to misuse your data. If you decide that you no longer want to use our store and would like to have your personal data removed from our database (or if you’d like to get all the personal data associated with your account that we have), please send an email to you believe that your personal data has been misused, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. It is essential for operating an online store. Even if you do that, you’ll still receive account-related emails (such as order status notifications, password reset emails, and more). If you decide not to receive newsletters at all, you’ll have to unsubscribe from all the mailing lists. Please note that mailing lists are independent from each other. That way they’ll be able to remove your email address from the mailing list, should you request us to do so. Some members of our staff can view mailing lists with email addresses. Send an email to may use a third-party email service (MailChimp and/or Mad Mimi) to send newsletters.Use the “Unsubscribe” link in our newsletters that you receive.Once your account is registered, just sign in and unsubscribe from newsletters in profile settings.You can always have your email address removed from our mailing lists. While it is there, we know that we can contact you by email regarding that topic. When you sign up for a specific newsletter, we (The Saffron Souk) add your email address to a corresponding mailing list. ![]()
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