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The Colonial Clippers

Chapter 236: APPENDIX B.—Later American-built Passenger Ships to Australia.
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The author provides a detailed chronicle of the fast sailing clippers that served the Britain–Australia routes, dividing coverage between emigrant passenger ships and wool clippers. It combines technical descriptions, sail plans and illustrations with passage records, captains’ logs, ownership and commercial practices, notable races and 24-hour runs, and accounts of accidents, fires and final fates. Anecdotes and measured statistics illuminate everyday life aboard, steerage conditions, and changes in routing and shipbuilding, while lists of best passages and vessel biographies trace the operational history and later careers of many prominent clippers.

APPENDIX B.—Later American-built Passenger Ships to Australia.

Name of Ship Original Name
if Name changed
Reg.
Tonnage
Builders Where Built Date
Built
Last Owners

Southern Empire

Jacob A. Westervelt 1418   New York 1849

Black Ball Line

Tornado

  1801A Williams Williamsburg, N.Y. 1851

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Flying Cloud

  1793A Don. Mackay Boston

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Invincible

  1767A W. H. Webb New York

White Star Line

Queen of the Colonies

Wizard 1346 Hall Boston 1852

Black Ball Line

Chariot of Fame

  1640 Don. Mackay     „ 1853

White Star Line

Empress of the Seas, No. 1

  1647     „     „

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Neptune’s Car

  1616   Portsmouth, Va.

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Young Australia

  1020       „

Black Ball Line

Landsborough

  1066   United States

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Golden Age

  1241   St. John’s

Tyson & Co.

Whirlwind

  1003 J. O. Curtis Medford, Mass.

Black Ball Line

Saldanha

  1257   Quebec

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Fiery Star

Comet 1361 Webb New York 1851

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Morning Star

  1534   St. John 1854

Fernie Bros.

Light Brigade

Ocean Telegraph 1495   Medford, U.S.

Black Ball Line

Royal Dane

Sierra Nevada 1616   Portsmouth, U.S.

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Florence Nightingale

  1362   New Brunswick 1855

Brocklebank

Elizabeth Ann Bright

Tam o’ Shanter 1920   St. John 1856

Black Ball Line

Sovereign of the Seas, No. 2

  1226 Don. Mackay Boston  

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Blue Jacket, No. 2

    986 McLachlan St. John 1858

White Star Line

Prince of the Seas

  1316    

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Dawn of Hope

  1215 Nevins New Brunswick 1859

Wright & Co.

Mistress of the Seas

  1740 Gass     „ 1861

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Empress of the Seas, No. 2

  1243 Hilyard     „ 1863

Black Ball Line

Legion of Honour

  1219 McDonald     „ 1863

White Star Line

Southern Empire, No. 2

  1142 Baldwin Quebec

Cannon & S.

Palm Tree

  1473 Smith New Brunswick 1865

J. Smith

Sunda

  1556 Desmond Miramichi

Black Ball Line