abstract:The Syren was the longest lived of all the clipper ships, with a sailing life of 68 years 7 months. She sailed in the San Francisco trade, in the Far East, and transported whaling products from Hawaii and the Arctic to New Bedford.
It would have seemed as foolish to expectdignified reserve or womanly gravity from this amber-hairedsyren, as to wishforrich basses in thecleartrebleof a skylark'ssong.