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New York: Fulton: Paddle steamer: For New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company. 8 September United Kingdom: Pitcher Northfleet: Plover: Albacore-class gunboat: For Royal Navy. [198] 8 September United Kingdom: Pitcher Northfleet: Tickler: Albacore-class gunboat: For Royal Navy. [198] 12 September United Kingdom: Chesapeake: Forte-class ...
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.
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;
SS Ariel (1873): Launched in 1855 she made a New York – Aspinwall and Transatlantic voyages until Summer 1865 but was chartered to the War Department in 1861,1862,1864 and 1865. After the American Civil War she was used for transatlantic service but in 1873 was running between Hakodate and Yokohama for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company when ...
A log of the ship's voyage across the Atlantic [1] was kept by the correspondent of the New York Daily Times, where it was published on Thursday, 14 May 1857. On arrival in England, Niagara was equipped to lay cable for the first transatlantic telegraph , which was to follow the shallow tableland discovered between Newfoundland and Ireland by ...
The first USS Sabine was a sailing frigate built by the United States Navy in 1855. The ship was among the first ships to see action in the American Civil War. In 1862, a large portion of the USS Monitor crew were volunteers from the Sabine. She was built at the New York Navy Yard. Her keel was laid in 1822, but she was not launched until 3 ...
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The Arago was a wooden hulled, brig-rigged, sidewheel steamer built in 1855 by Westervelt & Sons at New York, New York.Chartered by the Union Army in the Army Transport Service, during the American Civil War for use as a troop transport and in operation with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron throughout the war, Arago was the ship that returned the United States flag to Fort Sumter in ...