David Crockett

Medium clipper ship built in 1853 by Greenman & Co., Mystic, CT, at a cost of $93.000. Dimensions 218'8"×41'×27' and tonnage 1547 tons.

Rigged with double fore and main topsails, and three skysails. Later re-rigged as a barque in 1880s.

1853 October 18
Launched at the shipyard of Greenman & Co., Mystic, CT, for Handy & Everett, New York, for their line of New York-Liverpool packets.
1853-1858
Captain Joseph W. Spencer.
1855 January
Sailed from Liverpool to Aden in 85 days.
c1857
Sold to Lawrence Giles & Co., New York.
1857 March 19 - July 19
Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 122 days.
1857 October 6 - January 9
Sailed from San Francisco to Sandy Hook, New York, in 95 days.
1858-1859
Captain Frederick W. Spencer.
1858 March 24 - July 19
Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 117 days.
1858 October 17 - January 15
Sailed from San Francisco to Sandy Hook, New York, in 89 days.
1859-1860
Captain Peter E. Rowland.
1859 October 15 - January 16
Sailed from San Francisco to New York in 93 days.
1859 March 16 - July 27
Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 131 days.
1860 March 2 - July 3
Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 123 days.
1860-1874
Captain John A. Burgess, Somerset, MA.
1871 November 6 - February 17
Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 103 days.
1874 April 20
Cleared to sail from San Francisco for Liverpool with a cargo wheat when the crew mutinied and delayed the departure for five days.
1874 June 25
Captain Burgess was washed overboard and drowned in a heavy gale off the Rio de la Plata. The mate John Anderson assumed command of the ship.
1874 August 10
Arrived in Liverpool after a passage of 107 days.
1874-1883
Captain John Anderson.
1880
The ownership of the David Crockett together with the other ships of George Howes & Co., New York, the Young America, Black Hawk och Valparaiso were transferred John Rosenfeld, San Francisco.
1882 February 20 - July 27
Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 157 days.
1883
Sold to Thomas Dunham's Nephew & Co., who later sold the ship to S.W. Carey who reduced her to barque rig.
1890 May
Sold to Peter Wright & Son, Philadelphia, and converted into a coal barge.
1899 February
Stranded on the Romer Shoal, New York Bay, and was broken apart by a week of winter gales.

Updated 1997-03-22 by Lars Bruzelius


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