Records Set By McKay's Clippers
- Lightning set multiple records
- 436 miles in a 24-hour period
- 64 days from Melbourne, Australia, to Liverpool, England
- Sovereign of the Seas posted the fastest speed ever by a sailing ship - 22 kts. in 1854.
- James Baines logged a speed of 21 knots (June 18, 1856)
- Flying Cloud made two 89-day passages New York to San Francisco
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