Broadcast: 26th February 1936

Starring: Various

Added: Feb 26 2004

America on the seas – to what better place can one look to find so many traits of the American character, for the skill and courage for the gallantry and perseverance, the audacity and bravery that have contributed in such rich measure to the nations development. Let us turn back to the year 1851 a single word has spread with an almighty roar around the world, Gold. Swifter ships are needed to carry food and supplies to California and New England geniuses are called upon to build them. We find Donald Mackay one of the greatest of all shipbuilders with his friend the poet Henry Wordsworth-Longfellow in Keys East Boston shipyard where a great new ship is being kitted out – the Flying Cloud.