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Full-rigged ship: For Messrs. Brown & Co. [47] 20 March France: Toulon Naval Yard Toulon: Arcole: Algésiras-class ship of the line: For French Navy. Also reported as built at Cherbourg. [24] 20 March United Kingdom: Messrs. Cato, Miller & Co. Liverpool: Conquest: Barque: For private owner. [48] 20 March United Kingdom: David Griffiths Cardigan ...
Wrecked in the Japan Sea after being dismasted in a typhoon, 1878. 198' x38' x 22' 1291 tons. Lord of the Isles [20]: 93–94 [21]: 82 1853 United Kingdom : Abandoned in 1862 210 ft (64 m) Iron hulled clipper built by Robert Scott & Co., Greenock. Carried tea from Shanghai to London in 96 days in 1855. Won the tea race 1856.
The Confederacy, in desperate need of ships, raised Merrimack and rebuilt her as an ironclad ram, according to a design prepared by Lt. John Mercer Brooke, CSN. Commissioned as CSS Virginia 17 February 1862, the ironclad was the hope of the Confederacy to destroy the wooden ships in Hampton Roads , and to end the Union blockade which had ...
She was launched on September 4, 1855. [1] Her sister ship Arago was built by Westervelt & Sons. They were both constructed in 1855 for the New York & Havre Steam Navigation Company, then under contract with the United States Government to deliver mail between New York and Le Havre, France. [2] Both were named for steamship pioneers.
It acted as both a cargo ship, carrying close to 10 million pounds of tea between 1870 and 1877, and a training ship, and was known as one of the fastest ships of its time.
1855 ships (75 P) 1856 ships (65 P ... Pages in category "1850s ships" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The SS Schomberg was a clipper built in Aberdeen by Alexander Hall & Co. for "the Black Ball line" (which was a subsidiary of James Baines & Co., of Liverpool) for carrying large cargoes and steerage passengers, and to "outdo the Americans".