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After acquiring 2,225 chests of tea, 301 bolts of silk, 405 boxes of china and other exotic items that could be sold for high prices back home, Chasseur left the port of Canton, China, on January 1, 1816. She returned to Maryland along nearly the same route as her outbound voyage to China. After clearing the bottom of Indochina, she headed west across the Indian Ocean toward the Cape Good Hope at the tip of Africa. From there she headed straight across the Atlantic to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, known as the Virginia capes.
Chasseur was a very fast vessel. In fact, on her homebound voyage she set a speed record. Despite the fact that the copper sheeting on her hull was coming loose and slowing her down, she made the passage from Canton, China, to Chesapeake Bay in 95 days. This was a fastest that any ship had ever sailed that course. Chasseur's record held for 16 years when it was broken by the Clipper Atlantic in 1832. The Supercargo, the officer in charge of the cargo aboard the ship, kept the following log of the trip home. By reading this log, you can compare a sailing voyage in 1815 with a sailing voyage aboard Pride of Baltimore II, a modern replica of the same kind of vessel. How are the ship's alike? How are they different? How are their voyages different? When you are ready, click the "Ahead" button below to read pages from Chasseur's outbound log.
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