Chronicles of Early Ascents of Half Dome — Appendix

The first trip of British clipper Hoghton Tower to San Francisco in 1871

Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, April 29, 1871, p. 3

Naval Architecture.
The "Hoghton Tower" — A Representative Merchant Ship of the Period.

Newspaper article about Hoghton Tower,
 part 1
Newspaper article about
 Hoghton Tower, part 2

Find more about early voyages of Hoghton Tower in the Last of the Windjammers, by Basil Lubbock, Brown, Son & Fitzgerald, Glasgow, 1948, pp. 136-137 [first edition: 1927-1929].


William Gleadell's Voyage on Hoghton Tower in 1883
Chronicles of Early Ascents of Half Dome