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French ship Tage (1847) Torrington (1847 brig) V. French ship Valmy (1847) Victory (1847 ship) W. West Point (1847) USS Wyandank
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 ...
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 ...
Through the lobbying efforts of Jeremiah N. Reynolds, [a] the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution on May 21, 1828, requesting President John Quincy Adams to send a ship to explore the Pacific. Adams was keen on the resolution and ordered his Secretary of the Navy to ready a ship, the Peacock.
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.
[6] [page needed] In the following years, the advantages of iron ships became more obvious and the value of wooden ships decreased perceptibly. The owners of wooden ships therefore began to fasten [clarification needed] their vessels with iron and copper. In case of West Point, this happened in November 1857. [1]
In the United States, the term "clipper" referred to the Baltimore clipper, a topsail schooner that was developed in Chesapeake Bay before the American Revolution and was lightly armed in the War of 1812, sailing under Letters of Marque and Reprisal, when the type—exemplified by the Chasseur, launched at Fells Point, Baltimore, 1814— became known for its incredible speed; a deep draft ...