Clipper Ships Built in the United States.
Maine
Alna
D. Weymouth
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1856 | King Philip | 1194 | | Glidden & Williams | Boston
|
Bath
Hall, Snow & Co.
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852-10-18 | Carrier Pigeon | 843 | | Reed, Wade & Co. | Boston
|
| 1853 | Undaunted | 1371 | | W.H. Foster & Co. | Boston
|
M. Simpson
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1859 | Maid of the Sea | 661 | | Jacob Stanwood, et al. | New Boston
|
Trufant & Drummond
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Monsoon | 773 | | George Hussey | New Bedford
|
| 1853 | Emerald Isle | 1736 | | W. & J.T. Tapscott | New York
|
| 1853-06 | Flying Dragon | 1127 | | Reed, Wade & Co. | Boston
|
| 1853-11-30 | Viking | 1349 | | George Hussey | New Bedford
|
| 1854 | Windward | 818 | | R.W. Cameron | New York
|
| 1854-05 | Mary Robinson | 1371 | | E.M. Robinson | New Bedford
|
Belfast
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1856 | Sportsman | 626 | | J. Pierce & Co.
R.W. Cameron & Co. | Boston
New York
|
Carter & Co.
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1856 | Seaman's Bride | 758 | | Enoch Benner, daniel Lewis, et al. | Boston
|
Brewer
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1858 | Golden Rocket | 608 | | Moses Giddings and E.S. Dole | Bangor, ME
|
Bristol
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Sparkling Sea | 893 | | Alfred Blanchard, et al. | Boston
|
Brunswick
G. Skolfield
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1856 | Rising Sun | 1310 | | G. Skolfield & Co. | Brunswick, ME
|
Cape Elizabeth
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Warner | 500 | | Wm. H. Merritt | New York
|
| 1853 | Portland | 998
| | N.F. Deering, et al. | Portland, ME
|
Alfred Butler
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Snow Squall | 742 | | Charles R. Green | New York
|
C.B. Butler
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1850 | Black Squall | 400 | | John Codman | New York
|
Thomas E. Knight
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854-02 | Phoenix | 1485
1458 | | N. Blanchard & Sons
Charles Carow | New York
Portland, ME
|
Cumberland
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Bk Grapeshot | 345 | | Sebastian Lawrence, et al. | New London
|
Damariscotta
Austin & Hall
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Black Warrior | 1828 | | William Wilson & Son | Baltimore
|
| 1853 | Wild Rover | 1100 | 1036 | Alpheus Hardy & Co. | Boston
|
Cyrus Cotter
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Ocean Herald | 1658
2136 | | Everett & Brown | New York
|
Wm. Hitchcock & Co.
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Golden Rule | 1185 | | Frederick Nickerson, et al. | Boston
|
| 1855 | Criterion | 1546
1387 | | F. Nickerson & Co. | Boston
|
Metcalf & Noriss
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1850 | Alert | 764 | | Crocker & Warren | New York
|
| 1852 | Levanter | 868 | | B.F. Metcalf and R.W. Trundy | New York
|
| 1852 | Queen of the East | 1275 | | Crocker & Warren | New York
|
| 1853-11-02 | Flying Scud | 1713 | | R.W. Cameron | New York
|
| 1854 | Talisman | 1237 | | Crocker & Warren | New York
|
Eastport
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Crystal Palace | 653
| | E.M. Robinson, et al. | New Bedford
|
C.S. Husten
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1850 | Grey Feather | 610
587 | | L.H. Sampson & Co. | New York
|
Eliot
James Arey & Sons
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Josephine | 947 | | Jos. Andrews | Salem
|
Frankfort
James Arey & Sons
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853-09-03 | Spitfire | 1549
1520 | | Thomas Gray and Manning & Stanwood | Boston
|
Dunham & Co.
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853-11 | Nonpareil | 1431 | | Thomas Richardson & Co. | New York & Philadelphia
|
George Dunham & Co.
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Ocean Spray | 1089 | | Veasie & Co. | Bangor, ME
|
Isaac Dunham
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852-12 | Flying Yankee / Flying Arrow | 1092 | | Manning, Stanwood & Co. and Thomas Gray | Boston
|
Williams & Arey
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1856 | Arey | 1129 | | Wakeman, Dimon & Co. | New York
|
Farmingdale
Geo. Pierce
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Miss Mag | 727 | | Samuel C. Grant
Pierce & Bacon | Farmingdale
Boston
|
Freeport
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Quickstep | 836
823 | | Dunham & Dimon | New York
|
Enos Soule
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1849 | Tam O'Shanter | 777 | | Enos Soule | Freeport
|
Hallowell
J. Rideout
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Dashaway | 1012 | | Read, Page & Co. | Hallowell
|
Kennebunk
Bourne & Kingsbury
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Roebuck | 815 | | Thaddeus Nichols & Thomas Curtis | Boston
|
Newcastle
William Hitchcock
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852-12 | Flying Eagle | 1094 | 1004 | Frederick Nickerson & Co. | Boston
|
Metcalf & Norris
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Levanter | 868 | | Smith & Boynton and Naylor & Co. | New York
|
Abner Stetson
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Western Empire | 1398 | | Wm. Sprague, et al. | Boston
|
Orland
Samuel B. Keyes
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Stornaway | 750 | | Welles & Gowan | Boston
|
Pembroke
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Bk Comet | 536 | | Edward C. Bates, et al. | Boston
|
| 1852-11 | Queen of the Pacific | 1356 | | Reed, Wade & Co. | Boston
|
| 1853 | Western Continent | 1272 | | John M. Mayo & Co. | Boston
|
Pittston
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | White Falcon | 1372 | | M.O. Roberts | New York
|
Richmond
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Strenla | 714 | | Wm Ropes | Boston
|
G.H. Ferrin
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Wild Wave | 1547 | | Benjamin Bangs | Boston
|
Patten & Sturdevant
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Pride of America | 1826 | | Patten & Sturdevant, Richmond
|
| 1854 | Peerless | 633 | | E.E. Davidson | Boston
|
Thomas J. Southard
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853-09-05 | Gauntlet | 1854 | | Stephenson & Thurston | New York
|
| 1854 | Wizard King | 1398 | | Thomas J. Southard | Richmond, ME
|
Robbinston
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Juniper | 514 | | Aymar & Co. | New York
|
J.M. Balkesn
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Bk Francis Palmer | 302 | | Kesing & Brown | San Francisco
|
James W. Cox
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853-12-01 | Red Gauntlet | 1038 | | F. Boyd & Co. | Boston
|
| 1855 | Dictator | 1293 | | Samuel Train | Medford
|
Rose
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Virginia | 959 | | George W. Hunter | Boston
|
Rockland
Abbott, Kimball & Co.
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Yankee Ranger | 707 | | Abbott, Kimball & Co. /
T.B. Wales & Co., Nathaniel Emmons, et al. | New York /
Boston
|
Horace Merriam
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Live Yankee | 1637 | | George W. Brown et al. | New York
|
| 1854 | Euterpe | 1985 | 1509 | Foster & Nickerson | New York
|
F.W. Rhoades
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Anglo Saxon | 868 | | Henry A. Kelley, Robt. B. Coleman, et al./
E.M. Robertson | New York
|
| 1853 | Progressive | 1119 | | |
|
T.W. Rhoades
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1855-02-02 | Young Mechanic | 1375 | | William McLoon | Rockland
|
George Thomas
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Bk Springbok | 1900 | | Seacomb & Taylor | Boston
|
| 1852-03-08 | Defiance | 1690 | | William T. Dugan |
|
| 1852-10-15 | Rattler | 1121 | 909 | William Whitlock Jr | New York
|
| 1853-11-02 | Red Jacket | 2305 | | Seacomb & Taylor | Boston
|
Thomaston
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Empire | 1272 | | Foster & Nickerson | New York
|
Chapman & Flint
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Oracle | 1196 | | | New York
|
J.C.C. Morton
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Golden Racer | 837 | | | Boston
|
J. & C. Morton
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Ocean Chief | 1228 | | James Baines & Co. | Liverpool
|
Hon. Joshua Patterson
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Crest of the Wave | 942 | | M.R. Ludwig | Baltimore
|
Trescott
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1851 | Kate Hayes | 700 | | Stephen W. Dana et al. | Boston
|
| 1852 | Sea Lark | 974 | | Samuel G. Reed and E. Mott Robinson | Boston and New Bedford
|
Waldoboro
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Spark of the Ocean | 895 | | Alfred Blanchard, Wm. H. Greely, et al. | Boston
|
Edwin Achorn
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852-10-28 | Wings of the Morning | 915 | 770 | Talbot & Olyphant
John Bulfinch and H.A. Lovell | New York
|
Achorn & Gleason
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Woodcock | 1091 | | Dunham & Dimon | New York
|
Warren
Burgess & Clark
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1855 | Stephen Crowell | 936 | | Snow & Burgess | New York
|
Wiscasset
Clark & Wood
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Golden Horn | 1193 | | H. Clark | Wiscasset
|
Maryland
Baltimore
Builder unknown
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1847/48 | Architect | 520 | | Gray
|
| 1848 | Grey Hound | 538 | | D. Stewart | Baltimore
|
| 1851 | Eliza F. Mason | 582 | | | Philadelphia
|
| 1851 | Union | 1012 | 853 | S. Lurman & Co. | Baltimore
|
| 1852 | Kate Napier | 700 | | Adam Gray | Baltimore
|
| 1852 | Lady Suffolk | 530 | | |
|
| 1852 | Rattler | 539 | | |
|
| 1855 | Helen Mar | 511 | | George Logan | New York
|
James Abraham
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Flora Temple | 1915 | | Abraham & Ashcroft | Baltimore
|
| 1855 | Carrier Dove | 1694 | | Montell & Co. | Baltimore
|
| 1855 | Cherubim | 1796 | | David Currie et al. | Richmond, VA
|
Abraham & Ashcroft
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1854 | Canvasback | 731 | | Oelrich & Lurman | Baltimore
|
R. & E. Bell
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1850-09-07 | Seaman | 546 | | Thomas Handy | New York
|
| 1851-06-25 | Seaman's Bride | 668 | | Thomas Handy | New York
|
Cooper & Butler
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1858 | Sirius/i> | 851 | | | Bremen
|
Cooper & Slicer
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853 | Spirit of the Times | 1206 | 928 | Aymar & Co. | New York
|
Foster & Boose
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
1853
1854 [?] | Pride of the Sea | 1600 | | James Hooper & Co. | Baltimore
|
| 1853 | Rover's Bride | 383
376 | | J.D. Nason | San Francisco
|
J. Gardner
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1850 | Paladin | 460 | | | Buenos Ayres
|
William & George Gardner
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Sirocco | 1130 | | Dawson/Damon & Hancock | Philadelphia
|
| 1853 | Euroclydon | 1410 | | Hancock & Dawson | Philadelphia
|
| 1854-08-23 | Napier | 1811 | | Dawson & Hancock | Philadelphia
|
| 1855 | Whistling Wind | 1800 | | |
|
Gardner & Palmer
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Atalanta | 1289 | | Montell & Co. | Baltimore
|
Adams Gray
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1850 | Sea Nymph | 537
526 | | |
|
Hunt & Wagner
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1852 | Kate Hooper | 1488 | | J.A. Hooper | Baltimore
|
| 1855 | Mary Whitridge | 978 | 862 | Thomas Whitridge & Co. | Baltimore
|
Kennard & Williamson
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1833 | Ann McKim | 494 | | Issac McKim | Baltimore
|
J.A. Robb
| Launched | Name | OM | NM | Owner | Port
|
|---|
| 1853-01-12 | Frigate Bird | 567 | | C.H. Cummings & Co. | Philadelphia
|
- OM:
- Old measurement.
- NM:
- New measurement.
References:
Updated 1999-02-07 by
Lars Bruzelius
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