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List of people who sailed on clipper ships

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Captains

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|work=Captain Joseph Warren Holmes of Mystic

|publisher=University of CT

|orig-year=1908

|year=2009

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|access-date=May 9, 2010

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|archive-date=July 20, 2011

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  • Nathaniel Palmer—American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
  • Robert Waterman (sea captain)—Clipper captain famous for making record-breaking times and for being rough on his crews.{{cite web |year= 2009 |url = http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/seawitchcopyweb.html|title = The Sea Witch|publisher = eraoftheclipperships.com| access-date = September 25, 2009 }}{{cite web |year= 2009 |url = http://www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/waterman.htm|title = Captain Robert "Bully" Waterman|publisher = The Maritime Heritage Project| access-date = September 25, 2009 | last=D. Blethen Adams Levy }}

Crew members

  • Adelbert Ames—Mate on a clipper, seaman on his father’s ship. Became a Union general in the Civil War, Reconstruction era politician, and Spanish–American War general.{{cite book |title= Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders|last= Warner |first= Ezra J |year= 1964 |publisher= Louisiana State University Press |location= Baton Rouge|isbn= 0-8071-0822-7|page= [https://archive.org/details/generalsinblueli0000warn/page/5 5]|url=https://archive.org/details/generalsinblueli0000warn|url-access= registration}}
  • Hobart Bosworth—Cabin boy. Became a famous actor.
  • David Bernard Clarke—2nd Mate on the Surrey Official No. 12873 and the Challenger No. 10707 and 1st Mate on the Red Deer No. 47387.
  • Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast
  • Michael Healy—Cabin boy on a clipper. Became the first African-American to command a ship of the United States government.{{Cite web |url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/HealyMichaelIndex.asp |title=Captain Michael A. Healy, USRCS |access-date=2010-09-30 |archive-date=2017-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502032020/http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/HealyMichaelIndex.asp |url-status=dead }}
  • Benjamin Cheever Howard—Mate on Witchcraft, Golden Fleece, & Rising Son. Letters written from clippers at Bancroft Library & Peabody Essex Museum. Early San Francisco businessman (Howard & Pool).
  • Edmund Rice—Apprentice to a clipper captain. Became a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War.{{Cite web|last=Nitch |first=Steven |title=VISIONS OF HONOR: A Special Look at Gettysburg Medal of Honor recipient Brigadier General Edmund Rice |publisher=FindArticles |date=November–December 2006 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3905/is_200611/ai_n17193766/pg_1 |access-date=2007-05-30 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Passengers

=Travellers=

  • Charles Keeler—American author, adventure, poet, naturalist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture. Traveled around Cape Horn on the clipper Charmer in 1893.
  • Sara Delano Roosevelt—Mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Voyage to China at age eleven on the Surprise, with her mother and six brothers and sisters.

{{Cite journal

| last = Butow

| first = By R.J.C.

| author-link = Robert Butow

| title=A Notable Passage to China, Myth and Memory in FDR's Family History

| journal = Prologue Magazine

| volume = 31

| issue = 3

| publisher = The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

| location = Washington, DC

| date = Fall 1999

| url = https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1999/fall/roosevelt-family-history-1.html

| access-date=June 11, 2010}}

  • Corliss P. Stone—Elected Mayor of Seattle, 1872. Arrived on the West Coast on the clipper ship Archer.{{cite book|title=A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, Washington|year=1903|publisher=Lewis Publishing Co|location=New York and Chicago|pages=167|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/cpstone.txt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929155902/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/cpstone.txt|archive-date=2010-09-29|url-status=dead}}

=Missionaries to China=

  • Otis Gibson and Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson. Sailed on a clipper for a mission to China a few months after their marriage.Gibson, Eliza C. (1916), [http://www.gnudoyng.net/christianity/1916_trip_to_china.php A Trip to China] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140212/http://www.gnudoyng.net/christianity/1916_trip_to_china.php |date=2011-07-23 }}, California Christian Advocate
  • James Joseph Meadows—One of the first missionaries of the China Inland Mission.
  • Hudson Taylor—Protestant missionary, founder of the China Inland Mission. Spent 51 years in China.

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