6-458: (Redirected from Downeaster ) Down Easter or Downeaster may refer to: Down Easter (ship) , or Downeaster, a type of 19th-century sailing ship Downeaster (train) , an Amtrak passenger train from Boston, Massachusetts, to Brunswick, Maine Down Easter group of trains, a passenger train of the United States , 1927–1942 and 1949–1950
12-497: A fore-and-aft rigged fourth mast. These were at the limit of wooden ship size, and for this reason they switched to the British practice of building with steel. The after mast was called the jigger, and since it was fore-and-aft rigged like a bark's mizzen, these vessels were commonly called four masted barks. The history of the name Downeaster derives from the fact that these ships were designed for trade between Maine and Boston where
18-454: A person from Down East , parts of eastern coastal New England and Canada Downeaster, or Bay breeze , a cocktail drink See also [ edit ] Down East (disambiguation) " The Downeaster 'Alexa' ", a 1990 song by Billy Joel Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Down Easter . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
24-551: The equator twice. A more unusual name for the rig was shipentine. Arthur Sewall had begun building very large Down Easters in 1869. Beginning with the launch of the Rappahannock, they built a series of 300 foot, 3,000 tonners. The Rappahannock was a full-rigged 3-masted ship, and the Sewalls realized that at this size a fourth mast was needed to make the rig manageable. Subsequent vessels were rigged as 4-masted barks, with
30-404: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Down_Easter&oldid=1174630865 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Down Easter (ship) The Down Easter or Downeaster
36-603: Was a type of 19th-century sailing ship built in Maine , and used largely in the California grain trade . It was a modification of the clipper ship using a similar bow but with better cargo handling. It achieved a balance between speed and tonnage such that it made the wheat trade between California and Great Britain competitive with East Coast grain trade via steamship. It could make the trip between San Francisco and Liverpool in 100 days, despite rounding Cape Horn and crossing
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