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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 ...
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.
Connected directly to Hamburg by a dedicated railway line and station, the HAPAG Terminal at Cuxhaven served as the major departure point for German and European immigrants to North America until 1969 when ocean liner travel ceased. Today it serves as a museum and cruise ship terminal. [1] Poster by Otto Arpke (1931)
French ship Tage (1847) Torrington (1847 brig) V. French ship Valmy (1847) Victory (1847 ship) W. West Point (1847) USS Wyandank
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.
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.
List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1847 Ship State Description Champlain: British North America: The barque was driven ashore at Black Point, Nova Scotia.Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint John's, Newfoundland to Milford, United States.
List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1847 Ship State Description Camilla: British North America: The brig ran aground on Nyord, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to London. She had been refloated by 25 September and resumed her voyage. [79] [72] Elizabeth: British North America: The ship was lost near L'Ardoise, Nova Scotia ...