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Full-rigged ship: For John Hay. [8] [92] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. Samuelson & Co. Hull: Ernestine: Steamship: For private owner. [93] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. John Scott Russell & Co. Millwall: Etna: Aetna-class ironclad floating battery: For Royal Navy. Caught fire and self-launched, damaged beyond repair. [94] 3 May France: Lorient ...
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;
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 ...
HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131-gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line (with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks, and launched as a wooden steam battleship.
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".
List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1855 Ship State Description Conference United Kingdom: The ship was attacked by pirates off the Barbary Coast and was abandoned by her crew. [5] [6] Eclipse United Kingdom: The brig ran aground at Little Bauline, Nova Scotia, British North America. [7] Europe United Kingdom: The brig foundered. Her crew were rescued ...
Walmer Castle (1796 EIC ship) was an East Indiaman. She made nine voyages for the British East India Company. She then was a transport and was finally broken up in 1821. Walmer Castle (1836 ship) was launched at London as an East Indiaman. Until 1855 she sailed primarily to India, though she made at least two voyages carrying emigrants to ...
La Hogue was a wooden full-rigged ship built by James Laing, Sunderland and launched in 1855 for Duncan Dunbar. She was used in the passenger and cargo trade to Australia and New Zealand. [ 1 ] Her figurehead was a lion rampant supporting a shield with the St Andrew's Cross.