Clipper Ship, T. F. Oakes

The launch of the iron hulled clipper ship "T. F. Oakes" Drawing by F. Cozzens.  The ship was built at Philadelphia, Pa. in 1883. 

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Apparently she was later (1897) renamed New York, and wrecked in Halfmoon Bay, CA 1898. (Or was stranded in the vicinity of San Francisco in 1901.)
In between comes this incredible story.

Los Angeles Herald, Volume 26, Number 173, 22 March 1897 — CLIPPER T.F. OAKES