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The list of ship launches in 1855 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1855. Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes 3 January
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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1855 Ship State Description A. Cheesborough, and Invincible United States United Kingdom: The full-rigged ship A. Cheesborough was run down and sunk in the Yangtze by Invincible, which was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to London. Invincible put in to Hong Kong and was beached. [1] Adventure: New South Wales
an extreme clipper launched in 1855, was named after the father of ship building on the Mystic, Thatcher Magoun, who died the year that she was launched. Titan: 1855 United States Abandoned in 1858 Unknown She was built in 1855 by Roosevelt & Joyce at New York, and was owned by D. G. & W. Bacon of Boston.
Merrimack was launched by the Boston Navy Yard 15 June 1855, sponsored by Mary E. Simmons, and commissioned 20 February 1856, Captain Garrett J. Pendergrast in command. She was the second ship of the Navy to be named for the Merrimack River. [citation needed]
USS Wabash was a steam screw frigate of the United States Navy that served during the American Civil War.She was based on the same plans as Colorado.Post-war she continued to serve her country in European operations and eventually served as a barracks ship in Boston, Massachusetts, and was sold in 1912.
USS Minnesota was a wooden steam frigate in the United States Navy.Launched in 1855 and commissioned eighteen months later, the ship served in east Asia for two years before being decommissioned.
The sailing ship Andrew Jackson, a 1,679-registered-ton medium clipper, was built by the firm of Irons & Grinnell in Mystic, Connecticut in 1855. The vessel was designed for the shipping firm of J.H. Brower & Co. to carry cargo intended for sale to participants in the California Gold Rush.