Challenger (1853 clipper)
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:Clipper ship Challenger sailing card (C112-01-13).jpg | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United States | Ship flag = {{USN flag|1853}} | Ship name = Challenger | Ship owner = W. & F.H. Whittemore, Boston; later, Samuel G. Reed & Co. | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Robert E. Jackson, East Boston, MA | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 1853 | Ship acquired = | Ship honours = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = | Ship notes = Collided with Roswell Sprague in a gale at Bremerhaven, October 1861 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header =title | Ship country = Peru | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Peru|naval}} | Ship name = | Ship owner = N. Larco, agent for the Peruvian Government | Ship ordered = | Ship acquired = 1863 | Ship renamed = Camille Cavour | Ship fate = Abandoned off the coast of Mexico, October 1875, en route from Port Discovery to Peru, after damage during a gale. Camille Cavour{{'}}s wreck drifted ashore at Manzanillo. | Ship notes = Coolie ship in the guano trade }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Extreme clipper, designed by Samuel Hartt Pook | Ship tons burthen = 1334 tons | Ship length = {{convert|206|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|38|ft|4|in|abbr=on}} | Ship draft = {{convert|23|ft|abbr=on}}{{Cite web | last = Bruzelius | first = Lars | title = Sailing Ships: "'Challenger'" (1853) | publisher = The Maritime History Virtual Archives | year = 1998 | url = http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Challenger%281853%29.html | accessdate = April 11, 2010}} {{Cite book | last = Cutler | first = Carl C. | authorlink = | title = Greyhounds of the sea; The story of the American clipper ship | publisher = Halcyon House | year = 1930 | location = New York | pages = 425 | oclc = 610444 }} | Ship hold depth = | Ship propulsion = | Ship sail plan = | Ship complement = | Ship armament = | Ship notes = }} |
Challenger was an extreme clipper ship built in East Boston in 1853. She sailed in the San Francisco trade, and later in the guano trade in Peru.
Voyages
Guano trade and shipwreck
In 1863, Challenger was sold to the Peruvian Government, and renamed Camille Cavour. She was "used in the transport of Chinese coolies to the guano islands".
In 1875, she was "damaged in a gale on voyage from Port Discovery to Peru and was abandoned off the coast of Mexico. The wreck drifted ashore at Manzanillo."
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Category:Shipwrecks of the Mexican Pacific coast