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America: America-class steamship: For British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. [54] 13 May United Kingdom: A. Hall & Sons Aberdeen: Victoria: Schooner: For Leith and Hamburg Shipping Company. [55] 15 May United Kingdom: Robert Napier and Sons: Govan: Earl of Aberdeen: Paddle steamer: For Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company. [56 ...
The best passage from New York to Liverpool in those days was the 15 days 16 hours achieved at the end of 1823 by the ship New York (though often incorrectly reported as Canada). [4] The westward crossing had a remarkable record of 15 days 23 hours set by the Black Ball's Columbia in 1830, [ 5 ] during an unusually prolonged spell of easterly ...
Among those explorers was John Franklin, who first travelled to the region in 1818 as second-in-command of an expedition towards the North Pole on the ships Dorothea and Trent. Franklin was subsequently leader of two overland expeditions to and along the Canadian Arctic coast, in 1819–1822 and 1825–1827. [11]
French ship Tage (1847) Torrington (1847 brig) V. French ship Valmy (1847) Victory (1847 ship) W. West Point (1847) USS Wyandank
USS Allegheny – the first United States Navy ship to be so named – was a large (989 long tons (1,005 t)) iron-hulled steamer that served as an American gunboat in the South Atlantic Ocean as well as in the European area.
Prior to the 19th century, transatlantic crossings were undertaken in sailing ships, and the journeys were time-consuming and often perilous.The first trade route across the Atlantic was inaugurated by Spain a few decades after the European Discovery of the Americas, with the establishment of the West Indies fleets in 1566, a convoy system that regularly linked its territories in the Americas ...
West Point was built in 1847 [1] by Westervelt and MacKay, a company that acquired renown by constructing streamlined clipper ships and fast steamships. [4] The shipyard also produced United States Navy ships such as the screw sloop USS Brooklyn.
Starting in 1818, ships of the Black Ball Line began regularly scheduled trips between Britain and America. [ citation needed ] These " packet ships " (named for their delivery of mail "packets") gained fame for keeping to their disciplined schedules but notoriety for the often harsh treatment of seamen to ensure they made their times.