COLEMAN (Wm. T.), owner.
The Magnificent A1 Clipper Ship Florence Nightingale.
A MEMORABLE CLIPPER SHIP CARD
Commanded by Capt. E.W. Holmes, this Canadian-built clipper, sailed between New York and San Francisco catering to the demand for people eager to join the last years of the California Gold Rush. Of the Florence Nightingale, the card states that “her passages are among the shortest on record.”
While Florence Nightingale was already active as a nurse and health-care reformer prior to the outbreak of the Crimean War, her efforts to improve the conditions of soldiers in Scutari and her subsequent appearance at the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army, brought her international renown. She was among the most famous of the women after whom clipper ships were named.
OCLC locates a single copy held at AAS.
Fairburn IV, p. 2322.
