SuitabookWomen navigating ships
Ellen Prentiss learns to navigate and later guides her husband's clipper on a record-setting voyage.
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Tracey E. Fern - Author
A biographical account of Ellen Prentiss’s life at sea, centred on her navigation of the clipper Flying Cloud and its race to San Francisco.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA biographical account of Ellen Prentiss’s life at sea, centred on her navigation of the clipper Flying Cloud and its race to San Francisco.
Ellen Prentiss learns to navigate and later guides her husband's clipper on a record-setting voyage.
The voyage includes wild storms, broken masts and dangerously slow winds.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.