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1851 Ships: PS Lady Elgin, USS Nightingale, Flying Cloud, America, Multnomah, Marco Polo, Witch of the Wave, USS James Adger, Syren, USS Ino

1851 Ships: PS Lady Elgin, USS Nightingale, Flying Cloud, America, Multnomah, Marco Polo, Witch of the Wave, USS James Adger, Syren, USS Ino


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: PS Lady Elgin, USS Nightingale, Flying Cloud, America, Multnomah, Marco Polo, Witch of the Wave, USS James Adger, Syren, USS Ino, USS State of Georgia, Harriet Hoxie, Antelope of Boston, List of ship launches in 1851, Northern Light, USS Isaac Smith, HMS Miranda, USS General Bragg, HMS Sans Pareil, RMS Amazon, N.B. Palmer, Comet, USS Princeton, USS Calhoun, HMS Highflyer, Russian frigate Rurik, SS City of Manchester, HMS Valorous, Hornet, Lord Clarendon, HMS Brisk, USCS Meredith, HMS Barracouta, John Wade House. Excerpt: USS Nightingale (1851) was originally the tea clipper and slave ship Nightingale, launched in 1851. She was captured in Africa in 1861 by Saratoga, taken as a prize and purchased by the United States Navy. After serving as a supply ship and collier during the American Civil War supporting Union Navy ships blockading the Confederate States of America, Nightengale went on to a long career in Arctic exploration and merchant trading before foundering in the North Atlantic in 1893. Nightengale was designed and built at the Hanscom Shipyard in Eliot, Maine in 1851 by Samuel Hanscomb, Jr., receiving final fitting out in nearby Portsmouth, New Hampshire. "Her first voyage was on the famous 'tea and silk' course, between Shanghai and London, then employing the fastest ships afloat; and a race was arranged between her and the British clipper Challenger, from Shanghai to London, stakes of two thousand pounds being placed by their respective owners on the result. The Nightingale was defeated, and her commander, chagrined at the result, and being somewhat in years, resigned, leaving the ship in London Docks, in charge of the chief officer, and took a Cunarder home. The owners of the Nightingale, Messrs. Sampson and Tappan, Boston, made light of the pecuniary loss, but greatly deplored the lowering of the flag, a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155826813
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155826817
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: PS Lady Elgin, USS Nightingale, Flying Cloud, America, Multnomah, Marco Polo, Witch of the Wave, USS James Adger, Syren, USS Ino
  • Width: 189 mm


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