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Arthur Hamilton Clark was born on December 27, 1841 to Benjamin Cutler and Mary (Preston) Clark in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His father was a leading merchant-shipowner, and one of the earliest yachtsmen of New England.
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Mr. Clark in writing this book has rightly conceived his duty as a citizen of the country which holds the championship in the yachting world. He does not, it is true, go down as far even as the days of the 'America' (now more than fifty years ago), when we lost the honour that we have never been able to regain. But to write the history of modern yachting would have been a formidable addition to the already great burden of his work. We must be content, therefore, with what he has given us. With this he has evidently taken a world of pains, and the result, both as regards narrative and illustra- tions, is satisfactory. As Mr. Clark gives a few pages to quite ancient times, he might have allowed a brief notice to what is, in one sense, the most famous yacht in literature,
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Arthur Hamilton Clark was born on December 27, 1841 to Benjamin Cutler and Mary (Preston) Clark in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His father was a leading merchant-shipowner, and one of the earliest yachtsmen of New England.
Arthur graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1857, helped to win a famous regatta on the Charles as member of the Volant crew, and in December shipped as apprentice seaman on the clipper ship Black Prince. He returned as her third mate in March 1860, after a voyage around the world. The following summer he attended a commercial school in Boston, rowing up twelve miles from Nahant every pleasant day, and winning three races for single wherries in rowing regattas.
In December 1860 Clark became second mate of the clipper ship Northern Light on a voyage to San Francisco, and on returning joined the Black Prince as first mate on a government transport charter, staying with her on a China voyage. Clark got his master’s certificate in 1863 in Irar Eastern waters, where he remained two years, then traveled in Europe, and in July 1866 sailed the 27-ton sloop yacht Alice from Nahant to the Tsle of Wight in twenty days.
That winter he took out the S. S. Mancha from New York to China, commanded her in the China seas for two years, and became a well- known figure in the Treaty Ports.
His presence of mind once saved his next command, the paddle steamer Suwonada, from foundering; but in January 1872 she struck an uncharted rock in Haitan Straits. Clark promptly ran her aground on a sand spit, and beat off a flotilla of Chinese pirates until rescued by the U. S. S. Ashnelot. He commanded the Indiana of the American Line (New York-Liverpool) from 1874 to November 1876, when he resigned to become the London representative of several American marine insurance companies (1877 - 1890).
Returning to America as passenger on the William R. Grace, he survived a shipwreck off the Delaware Capes. He organized the marine transportation department of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and in 1895 was appointed Lloyd’s agent in New York, where his wide knowledge of marine affairs, good judgment, and sense of honor made him universally respected. From early life he had been a collector of ship pictures, models, and maritime history.
He now tried his hand at writing, publishing The History of Yachting, 1600— 1815 (1904), and The Clipper Ship Era, and Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships , 1843-1869 (1910), a brilliant and accurate work containing some of the best description and narrative in the literature of the sea. After retiring from the Lloyd’s agency in 1920 he purchased a house at Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he died, July 5, 1922.
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Clark was married to Anna Eichenberger, the daughter of Jean and Marie Eichenberger
