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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 ... Young America: Steamship:
It is the sole remaining example of the hundreds of American-built clipper ships. [13] Swordfish — 1851 United States (New York, NY) Unknown 169.6 ft (51.7 m) Swordfish was built by William H Webb, and owned by Barclays & Livingston both of New York. She sailed from New York to San Francisco in 90 days under Captain David S Babcock. Syren: 1851
The ship subsequently helped to capture the schooners Albion and Alert and the ship Thomas Watson off Charleston, South Carolina, on 15 October 1861. [ 5 ] Roanoke ' s deep draft prevented her from engaging the Confederate casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (her former sister USS Merrimack ) during the Battle of Hampton Roads on 8–9 March 1862.
The Thatcher Magoun was an extreme clipper launched in 1855. She was built in shipyards on the Mystic River at Medford, Massachusetts by shipbuilder Thatcher Magoun.Magoun died the year she was launched, and the ship was named after him.
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".
Donald McKay was launched on Donald McKay's shipyard in East Boston, USA, in January 1855.Newspapers reported that she had "all the airy beauty of a clipper combined with the stately outline of a ship of war and, though not sharp, yet her great length, buoyancy, and stability, indicate[d] that she [would] sail very fast, and be an excellent sea boat". [2]
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.