A good story is told of the late Captain R. B. Forbes, who was interested in some seventy sail of fine vessels, and who built many clippers for the India and China trade before the general application of steam. It seems that while testing the sailing qualities of a clipper-schooner, she was struck by a squall in Boston Harbor, fell on her side, filled with water, and went down. Fortunately she had a boat in tow, which saved all hands. He would not start a sheet nor luff her into the wind to prevent her being capsized; he was determined to know what she could do in a squall, even at the risk of his life and the lives of a select party of nautical friends he had with him; and although this experiment may have been of intense interest to Captain Forbes, it is doubtful whether his invited guests relished their position. Later she was raised without much trouble and had her spars reduced. For years afterwards she was famous along the coas............