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An extreme clipper ship built in 1854 by Jas. O. Curtis, Medford, MA, to the design of Samuel H. Pook. Dimensions 212'×40'×23' and tonnage 1495 tons Old Measurement.

1854 March 29: Launched at the shipyard of Jas. O. Curtis, Medford, MA, for Reed, Wade & Co., Boston. The first master was Captain George H. Willis late of the clipper ship Star of the Union.
1854 November 24 - ____: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in ___ days.
1863: Sold to the Black Ball Line of James Baines & Co., Liverpool, for £ 7060 and was renamed Light Brigade.
1863: Sailed London to Queensland.
1864 September 27 - December 22: Sailed London to Auckland in 86 days with 435 troops.
1867: Sailed London to Sydney.
1868: Sailed London to Lyttleton in 98 days.
1869: Sailed London to Queensland.
1870: Sailed London to Queensland.
1871: Sold to Taylor, Bethell & Roberts and used in the London - Moreton Bay trade.
1875: Sold to the Cork Warehouse Co., Cork.
1879: Surveyed in Cork and continued A1 for four years,
1883 February: Arrived to Queenstown 19 days out from New York, leaking badly.
1883: Sold to Gibraltar and used as a coal-hulk.

References:

Clipper ships, general references.
Fairburn, William Armstrong: Merchant Sail.
Fairburn Education Foundation, Inc., Center Lover, ME, 1945-1955. 6 vols.
Howe, Octavius T. & Matthews, Fredric C.: American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume II. Malay - Young Mechanic.
Marine Research Society, Salem, 1927.

Updated 1998-04-20 by Lars Bruzelius

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