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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 ...
Whitlock began his line with one ship, the 306-ton Cadmus. This vessel sailed in a one-ship line for five years. The Cadmus was replaced in 1829 by the Formosa, a new, 450-ton ship which ran alone until 1831. In that year a second ship, the Albany, was added to make a two-ship line. Then a third ship was added in 1833.
French ship Tage (1847) Torrington (1847 brig) V. French ship Valmy (1847) Victory (1847 ship) W. West Point (1847) USS Wyandank
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 ...
Looshtauk was an Irish emigrant ship, captained by John M. Thain, sailing from the Port of Liverpool to the Port of Quebec on April 17, 1847. 462 passengers boarded at Liverpool. [1] Typhus was caught by two male passengers in Liverpool and broke out during the crossing. Scarlet fever also erupted.
The first USS Advance was a brigantine in the United States Navy which participated in an Arctic rescue expedition. Advance was built in 1847 as Augusta in New Kent County, Virginia and loaned to the Navy on 7 May 1850 by Henry Grinnell to participate in the search for Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition which had been stranded in the frozen north since 1846.
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.
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.