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From 1825 to 1848 the average number of ships traveling to California increased to about 25 ships per year—a large increase from the average of 2.5 ships per year from 1769 to 1824. [27] The port of entry for trading purposes was the Alta California Capital, Monterey, California, where customs duties of about 100% were applied. These high ...
Castle Forbes (1818 ship) Castor (1782 ship) Cato (1800 ship) Cecilia (1790 ship) Ceres (1787 EIC ship) Ceres (1794 ship) Ceylon (1803 ship) Chapman (1777 ship) Charles Mills (1810 ship) Charlotte (1803 ship) Charming Kitty (1799 ship) Christopher (1785 ship) City of Edinburgh (1813 ship) Clyde (1820 ship) Comet (1800 ship) HMS Comet (1807 ...
Major Pierson (1781 ship) Manchester Packet (1806 ship) Margaret (1791 ship) Marquis de Somerulas (1800 ship) Mary Robinson (clipper) Memnon (clipper) Mendi (barque) Montezuma (1804 ship) Montezuma (1822 ship)
Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel; Hired armed cutter Admiral Mitchell; Albatros (19th-century ship) Hired armed cutter Albion; Hired armed lugger Alert; Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) Ann (1807 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Atlantic ...
With these exceptions during the first years of the California Gold Rush its first steamboats where from eastern shipyards, knocked down and sent by ship to San Francisco Bay. There on the beach of Yerba Buena Cove and elsewhere, enterprising forty-niner shipbuilders reassembled them on the shore and sent them up the Sacramento River to Sacramento.
Dreadnought was a three-masted medium clipper ship built in 1853 by Currier & Townsend at Newburyport, MA. She was originally intended for the "Racehorse Line" of California clippers, but ended up sailing for the Red Cross Line of New York and Liverpool packets. In 1860 she set a new record for New York to Liverpool of only 9 days, 17 hours.
The Atlantic triangular trade formed a major component of the colonial American economy, involving Europe, Africa and the Americas.The primary component of the transatlantic triangular trade consisted of slave ships from Europe sailing to Africa loaded with manufactured goods; once the ships arrived at African shores, the European slavers would exchange the goods aboard their ships for ...
Caesar (1800 ship) Canada (1800 ship) Caroline (1800 Philadelphia ship) Caroline (1800 ship) Castle Eden (1800 EIC ship) HMS Centinel (1804) French ship Chatham (1810) City of London (1800 Indiaman) French frigate Clorinde (1801) Clothier (1800 ship) Comet (1800 ship) HMS Cornwallis (1805) HMS Courageux (1800) Cumberland (1800 ship) HMS Curieux ...