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City of Baltimore: Steamship: For Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. [14] 27 January United States: Jacob Aaron Westervelt: New York City: Arago: Paddle steamer: For New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company. 29 January United Kingdom: Messrs. Dewdney Brixham: Dauntless: Brig: For private owner. [15] January United Kingdom ...
List of ship launches in 1855; A. French ship Algésiras (1855) Alhambra (1855) Andrew Jackson (clipper) SS Arago (1855) French ship Arcole (1855) USCS Arctic;
Captain Chadwick (see above ship registrations) was chartered to take the Battery to Portal Royal to go to the front lines. This account was written in the book History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865 : "A large packet ship of the Black Ball line, the Ellwood Walter, Capt. Chadwick, of Lyme, had been chartered to ...
The ship ran aground by 5:30 pm about 300 yards (270 m) from shore in heavy surf on the beach now called Playa de Oro (Gold Beach). [ 1 ] According to The New York Times of 9 August 1862, the ship carried 242 passengers and 95 officers and crew. 74 passengers survived, 21 from the first cabin, 22 from the second cabin and 31 from steerage.
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Adelaide, South Australia. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Adelaide. [15] Peruvian United Kingdom: The ship was driven ashore on "Egg Island", British North America in the autumn of 1855. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. She was ...
Carrier Dove, like Andrew Jackson of Mystic, Mary Whitridge of Baltimore, and Flying Mist of Medford, was a medium clipper, built on a practical modification of clipper ship lines. She combined much of the speed of the sleek, early 1850s extreme clippers with the larger cargo capacity of the fuller-bottomed traditional packet ships.
CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New Orleans commission merchant, Captain John A. Stevenson, acquired her for use as a privateer after she was captured by another privateer (later gunboat) CSS Ivy .
HMS Forward was a British Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869. After her sale, Mexican pirates captured her, and boats from the United States Navy sloop-of-war USS Mohican destroyed her in the Battle of Boca Teacapan in 1870.