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1 The Ship Achilles British Registry Built at Sunderland, England, ton displacement The Ship Admittance 501-ton displacement On the California coast, The Ship Adventure Galley Captain Kidd s ship in which he took the Quedah Merchant The Ship Alert Built at Boston in 1828 under the direction of master carpenter Noah Brooks 2 decks, 3 masts, /99-ton displacement 113 feet 4 inches X 28 feet X 14 feet Square stern, no galleries, billet head Owners, 1828: Alfred Richardson, Boston, and Theodore Lyman, Waltham MA Owners, : William Sturgis, John Bryant, and various associates, Boston Owners, : Henry P. Havens, Thomas W. Williams, and various associates, of New London CT Vessel was engaged in whaling Apparently bark rigged in 1856 Owner, 1862: C.H. Chapell, New London CT September 9, 1862: Captured and burned by CSS Alabama The Ship Ann McKim 1833: Built at Baltimore MD 494-ton displacement 1852: Dismantled at Valparaiso, Chile The Bark Architect 1855: Built at Rockland ME 399-ton displacement 127 feet X 28 feet X 12 feet The Armada de la Guarda de la Carrera de las Indias (Spanish Armada) This was the fleet which guarded the Spanish treasure fleet. A force of eight 600-ton galleons equipped with 40 to 50 cannon, and 3 smaller ships usually guarded the Central American convoy. A smaller convoy of two 600-ton galleons and two dispatch boats usually guarded the Mexico convoy. In 1595, the convoy increased to 20 warships when Sir Francis Drake was harassing the Caribbean. The Hermaphrodite Brig Avon 88-ton displacement 16-man crew John C. Jones, owner Made two or three trips from Honolulu to California in The Brig Ayacucho English Registry Displacement given in various customs house documents as 160, 204, 232, 300 tons Engaged in trade between California and Hawaii and California and Callao, Peru,

2 The Ship Barbara Believed to be the first English ship used to commit piracy in the Americas Under the command of John Phillips The Ship Batchelor s Delight 26-gun Danish slave ship Was captured by John Cook in 1684 Cook plundered for 4 years with her and then sold her to merchants Ship once again was used to commit piracy during 1689 to 1691 The English Frigate HMS Blonde Built 1819 mounted a row of 46 guns and a row of 42 guns 1870: Renamed Calypso The Brig Bolivar Displacement given in various customs house documents as 224, 212, 202, 193, 180 tons Owned by Americans at Honolulu Engaged in trade between Hawaii and California and along the California coast, The American Frigate USS Brandywine : Built at the Washington Navy Yard 1726-ton displacement, mounted 44 guns 1861: Burned at Norfolk Navy Yard 1867: Raised and sold The Ship Cabot Built at Duxbury MA, ton displacement The Ship Cacafuego She was originally named Nuestra Señora de la Concepción but was renamed Fire-shitter 120-ton merchant ship taken by Sir Francis Drake off northern Ecuador The Side-Wheel Steamer Cahawba 1854: Built at New York 1643-ton displacement 1861: Chartered by US War Department 1864: Purchased by US War Department 1865: Sold by US War Department 1867: Abandoned

3 The Ship California Built at Medford MA in 1831 under the direction of master carpenter George Fuller 2 decks, 3 masts, 369 2/95-ton displacement 117 feet 6 inches X 26 feet 3 inches X 13 feet 1 1/2 inches Square stern, no galleries, figurehead Owners, : John Bryant, William Sturgis, and various associates On the California coast repeatedly The Ship Castle of Comfort A 200-ton ship George Fenner s flagship during his 1566 slaving expedition to West Africa Under different commanders she was used throughout the 1570 s in several pirating activities The Brig Catalina Mexican Registry Displacement given in various customs house documents as 161, 160, 138 tons 13-man crew 0n the California coast repeatedly The Brig Clementine English Registry Displacement given in various customs house documents as 160, 93, 76 tons Engaged in trade between Hawaii and California The American Frigate USS Constellation Built at Baltimore, ton displacement mounted 36 guns Rebuilt : Broken up at Norfolk (then other vessels would successively bear this famous name) The Brig Convoy 137-ton displacement, 13-man crew Engaged in trade along the California coast and to Hawaii, The Ship Cortes 382-ton displacement July 20, 1834: 0n the voyage on which Pilgrim met her at Juan Fernandez, she departed New Bedford for the Pacific whaling grounds November 5, 1837: She returned to New Bedford with 2320 barrels of sperm oil The Ship Cygnet A 16-gun ship The Cygnet under the command of Charles Swan and Basil Ringrose took several small prizes off South America s Pacific coast She was next used in the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal by John Read She captured a rich prize near Ceylon in 1688 In May 1689, suffering from worms, she sank at Saint Augustine s Bay, near Madagascar

4 The American Sloop-of-War USS Decatur Built at New York Navy Yard, 1839 mounted 16 guns 1865: Sold at San Francisco The Brig Diana Displacement given in various customs house documents as 199, 170 tons Engaged in trade along the California coast, to Hawaii, the Columbia River, and Alaska, : Renamed Kamamalu April 1838: Went aground near Santa Barbara The English Frigate HMS Dublin 1812: Built 1885: Sold The Bark Early Bird Built at Newcastle, Delaware, ton displacement The Brig Facio (also referred to as Fazio) Mexican Registry 11-man crew Owned by Johnson and Aguirre Engaged in trade along the California coast, : Went aground at San Pedro (Pilgrim aided in getting her afloat) The Side-Wheel Steamer Golden Gate Built at New York, ton displacement Owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company 1862: Burned off the Mexican coast The Ship Golden Hind Sir Francis Drake s ship in which he took the Cacafuego The ship was originally named the Pelican The ship circumnavigated the globe arriving home in September 1580 Around 70 feet long and 18 to 24 feet wide After she was retired she was put up on dry land in a shed and there exhibited to the public She eventually rotted and was broken up in the 1660 s The American Receiving Ship USS Independence 1814: Built at the Boston Navy Yard as a 74-gun line-of-battle ship 1836: Altered to mount only 54 guns For many years after the Mexican War was a receiving ship at Mare Island 1914: Sold and burned The American Sloop-of-War USS John Adams Built at Norfolk Navy Yard, 1830 mounted 18 guns 1867: Sold at Boston

5 The Ship Lagoda Built at Wanton MA, ton displacement Owned by Bryant, Sturgis and Company when she was engaged in trade along the California coast in Engaged in whaling : Became a coal hulk at Yokohama 1899: Broken up at Kanagawa The Hermaphrodite Brig Loriot (Dana spelled her name Loriotte) Built at Plymouth MA in 1828 Displacement given in various customs house documents as 90, 76, 70 tons Engaged in trade along the California coast The Carrack Madre de Dios Treasure ship At 1,600 tons and 165 feet long, she was one of the largest ships afloat She was captured by Captain Crosse who was in league with several others Her booty was the richest haul ever taken to an English port The Ship Mastiff Built by Donald McKay at East Boston, ton displacement 168 feet 10 inches X 36 feet 6 inches X 22 feet 1859: Burned at sea The Ship New England Built ton displacement When spoken by Pilgrim she was on a whaling cruise in the South Atlantic grounds During June/July 1827 a ship named New England carried Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen from New Orleans to La Havre, but this could not have been the same ship. June 7, 1834: Departed Poughkeepsie NY August 3, 1836: Returned with 800 barrels of sperm oil, 2000 barrels of whale oil. The ship Nuestra Señora de la Concepción She was renamed Cacafuego (Fire-shitter) 120-ton merchant ship taken by Sir Francis Drake off northern Ecuador The Side-wheel Steamer Persia Built 1856 by Napier, Glasgow 3300-ton displacement 376 feet X 45 feet Owned by British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (Cunard Line) 1868: Sold 1872: Engines removed and scrapped

6 The Brig Pilgrim Built at Medford, Massachusetts in 1825 under the direction of Sprague J. James, master carpenter 2 decks, 2 masts, /95-ton displacement 86 feet 6 inches X 21 feet 7 1/2 inches X 10 feet 9 3/4 inches Square stern, no galleries, figurehead 1825: Joshua Blake, Francis Stanton, George Hallett of Boston, owners 1831: Charles Hill, Boston, owner 1832: William F. Weld, Boston, owner 1833: Arthur Lithgow, Jr., Boston, owner 1834: Samuel Hooper, John Bryant, William Sturgis, John Bryant, Jr., owners 1837: Nathan Godfrey, Portsmouth, owner 1837: William Sheafe, Edmund Q. Sheafe, Nathan Godfrey, Portsmouth, owners 1839: Mark W. Sheafe, Portsmouth, owner 1841: Robert Haley, Boston, owner 1856: Lost The Side-Wheel Steamer Queen City Built, San Francisco, ton displacement 1861: Abandoned The Ship Rialto 1834: Built at Kingston MA by Joseph Holmes 459-ton displacement The American Steam Frigate USS Roanoke 1855: Built at Norfolk Navy Yard 1883: Sold at Chester PA The Ship La Rosa Sardinian or Genoese Registry 425-ton displacement, 24-man crew Engaged in trade along the California coast, The Brig Roxanna Built at Bath ME, ton displacement Owned by Bryant, Sturgis and Company Engaged in trade along the California coast, The British Line-of-Battle Ship HMS Royal George, which mounted 100 heavy guns, turned turtle at Portsmouth in 1782 with great loss of life (Refer to William Cowper s Lament for the Royal George )

7 The Ship Sachem A vessel of 387 tons, 109 by 29 wide, built in 1810 by Thatcher Magoun in Medford MA, where he was supposed to have built some of the best sailing ships. Owned by Bryant, Sturgis and Company Engaged in trade along the California coast, In 1829, captained by Abel Coffin, it left Bangkok conveying the Siamese Twins Chang and Eng to Boston. The American Side-Wheel Steamer USS Saginaw 1859: Built at Mare Island Navy Yard 453-ton displacement 1870: Wrecked on Ocean Island Reef The American Sloop-of-War USS St. Louis Built at Washington Navy Yard, mounted 18 guns Sold after the Civil War The Side-Wheel Steamer Senator Built at New York, ton displacement Operated on the Sacramento River and then along the California coast 1884: Engines removed and ship sold to Australian purchasers The Bark Sitka Russian Registry 202-ton displacement On the California coast, The Side-Wheel Steamer Star of the West 1173-ton displacement 1852: Built at New York for Cornelius Vanderbilt 1859: Was running from New York to Aspinwall for the US Mail Steamship Company 1861: Chartered by the US Navy Department to attempt the relief of Fort Sumter 1862: Seized by Confederates at New Orleans and burned to prevent ship from falling into Union hands The Bark Tasso 314-ton displacement Engaged in trade along the California coast, The American Sloop-of-War USS Vandalia Built at Philadelphia, ton displacement The Ship Whydah A slave ship captured by Samuel Bellamy Loaded with rich cargo Sank off the coast of Massachusetts

8 The Ship Wilmington and Liverpool Packet 384-ton displacement First whaling cruise, November 14, 1833: Began whaling cruise to the Pacific Ocean grounds, departing New Bedford August 16, 1836: Returned with 2700 barrels of sperm oil 1845: Condemned in the Sandwich Islands

9 SHIPS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC Benjamin Franklin, Ferry, connecting Providence RI with New York. George Washington Adams committed suicide by jumping overboard from this ferry on April 30, Criterion, - Mississippi Steamboat Took Frances Trollope and her family from Memphis to Cincinnati. Edward, Took Frances Trollope and her family, and Frances Wright, from England to America in late Enterprise, Frances Wright left Haiti on the vessel for Europe by way of Philadelphia. Fourth of July, (Ohio River Steamboat) Taking de Tocqueville and Beaumont down the Ohio River, on a cloudy night with the river full of blocks of ice, the ship slammed into an obstruction. Harriet, On Feb. 7, 1829, set out with Prince Ibrahima and a total of 152 passengers for Liberia. Described as a handsome vessel, built at Bath, Maine, in 1819 by the noted shipwright James McLellan. 2 decks, 3 masts, 275 tons. Havre, Presumably French - took de Tocqueville and Beaumont from France to America. an able packet copper sheeted and riveted [but] boasted only 300 tons. Jasper, Brig of 236 tons; Sailed with R.W. Emerson cleared to Malta on December 25, John Quincy Adams, A 163-ton brig which Frances Wright chartered to sail from New Orleans to take the Nashoba slaves to freedom in Haiti. Lady Franklin, Steamer on the Ohio River took Frances Trollope and Family from Cincinnati to Wheeling during Spring Pennsylvania, Steamboat that carried Andrew Jackson on the first leg of his journey to Washington to serve as President. Princeton, American battleship on board which the great gun called the peacemaker exploded on February 28, 1844.