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Replica of 1847 "Baltimore Clipper" Californian built in 1984. A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. An early form of clipper, the name is most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines. These vessels may also ...
The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, commissioned to represent Baltimore, Maryland. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) against British merchant shipping and the world-wide ...
Extreme clipper, 2594 tons OM, 266 ft, built for James Baines & Co., last extreme clipper ship built by Donald McKay. Golden Fleece: 1855 United States (Boston, MA) Wrecked in 1877 222 ft (68 m) Mary Whitridge [1] — 1855 United States (Baltimore, MD) Unknown 168 ft (51 m) Built in Baltimore, owned by Thomas Whitridge & Co.
Chasseur was a Baltimore Clipper commanded by Captains Pearl Durkee (February 1813), William Wade (1813) and Thomas Boyle (1814-1815). [1] She was one of the best equipped and crewed American privateers during the War of 1812. [2]
Baltimore Clipper is the colloquial name for fast sailing ships of the 1800s built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. Pages in category "Baltimore Clipper"
The first public gas utility company in the Western Hemisphere -- and one of the earliest known public utilities anywhere -- was born in a museum on Baltimore's Holliday Street on June 11, 1816.
Ann McKim was a 143 ft (44 m), 493 ton OM American clipper ship, launched in Baltimore, Maryland in 1833 and broken up in 1852. One of the early true clippers, she was designed to meet the increasing demand for faster cargo transportation between the United States and China in the early 1840s.
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