Typhoon

An extreme clipper ship built in 1851 by Fernald & Pettigrew, Portsmouth, NH. Dimensions 225'×41'×23' and tonnage 1611 tons OM and 1215 tons NM. [1851? tons]

1851 February 18: Launched fully rigged at the shipyard of Fernald & Pettigrew, Portsmouth, NH, for D. & A. Kingsland & Co., New York.
1851 - 1854: In command of Captain Charles H. Salter, Portsmouth, NH.
1851 March 12 - March 26: Sailed from Portsmouth, NH, to Liverpool in 13 days and 22 hours.
1851 April 20 - May 17: Sailed from Liverpool to New York in 27 days with 393 passengers.
1851 August 2 - November 18: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 108 days.
1851: Sailed from San Francisco to Calcutta in 79 days.
1852: Sailed from Calcutta to London in 107 days. The passage from Sand's Head to the Cape of Good Hope took 37 days, a passage time only equalled by Witch of the Wave.
1852: Sailed from Liverpool to New York in 25 days.
1853 June 27: Struck the Mile Rock, off the South Head, when leaving the San Francisco harbour for China and had to return for repairs.
1853 February 21 - June 8: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 137 days.
1853 November 4 - February 21: Sailed from Shanghai to London in 109 with a cargo of tea.
1858 April 2: Lost all the topmasts in a heavy squall near the Atlantic Equator.
1863: Sold at Singapore for $ 39.000 to a British company.
18__: Sold to John Martin & Sons, Dublin, and was renamed Indomitable.

Listed as late as 1872.

References:

Clipper ships, general references.
Fairburn, William Armstrong: Merchant Sail.
Fairburn Education Foundation, Inc., Center Lover, ME, 1945-1955. 6 vols. li>Howe, Octavius T. & Matthews, Fredric C.: American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume II. Malay - Young Mechanic.
Argosy Antiquarian, New York, 1967/1926 (facs.).

Updated 1998-04-12 by Lars Bruzelius.

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