Donald McKay

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Donald McKay (1810–1880) was a Canadian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships.

He was born in Jordan Falls on Nova Scotia's South Shore. In 1841, he opened his first yard in Newburyport and moved to Boston in 1845. McKay designed and built some of the most successful clippers ever built.

McKay's clippers

Champion of the Seas
Flying Cloud
Glory of the Seas
Great Republic
Lightning
Sovereign of the Seas, named after HMS Sovereign of the Seas.

During the American Civil War he was contracted by the US Navy to build the USS Nausett, one of the few Casco-class monitors to be commissioned.

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Clipper ships, designers & builders
British-built clippers
Ariel \| Blackadder \| Cutty Sark \| Hallowe'en \| Leander \| Lothair \| Norman Court \| Sir Lancelot \| Tayleur \| Thermopylae \| Tsaitsing
American-built clippers
Champion of the Seas \| Flying Cloud \| Lightning
British designers and builders
Hercules Linton \| William Lithgow \| Scott & Linton
American designers and builders
Donald McKay

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