Extreme clipper built in 1852 on speculation by Donald McKay, East Boston.

Dimensions: 252'x45'1/2x29

1852 
     June, launched and bought by Andrew F. Meinke of the ship broker firm
     Funch & Meinke, New York. 
1853 
     Chartered to the Black Ball Line, Liverpool. 
1853 
     November, sold to J.C. Godeffroy and Son, Hamburg. 
1854 
     Claimed a 410 miles days run on passage Liverpool-Sydney. 
1859 
     Wrecked on the Pyramid Shoal in the Straits of Malacca. 

Select Bibliography:

McLean, Duncan: The New Clipper Sovereign of the Seas of Boston. The
Boston Daily Atlas, Vol. ??, Thursday, June 19, 1852. 

     Reprinted in Howes & Matthews: American Clipper Ships 1833-1858,
     1926. pp 600-606. 

     Reprinted in NRJ Vol. 28 (1982), pp 19-22. 
     Stammers, Michael K.: The Passage Makers. Teredo Books, Brighton,
     1978.