Seminole (clipper)
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = SEMINOLE (Ship) (c112-02-26).jpg | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1865}} | Ship name = Seminole | Ship owner = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Maxon & Fish, Mystic, CT | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = {{Cite book | last = Clark | first = Arthur H. | title = The Clipper Ship Era, An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews. 1843-1869 | publisher = G.P. Putnam’s Sons | year = 1910 | location = Camden, ME | page = 369 }} | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = | Ship notes = }} |
Seminole was a later clipper ship, built by Maxon & Fish at Mystic, Connecticut, in 1865.
Voyages
She was one of only two clipper ships in the post-Civil War period (1865–1900) to make a passage from an Atlantic port to San Francisco in less than one hundred days. Seminole arrived at San Francisco from New York on March 10, 1866, in 96 days. Glory of the Seas, “the last ship built by Donald McKay, made the same voyage, arriving at San Francisco, January 18, 1874, in 94 days."
Delivery of locomotive to San Francisco
Seminole left New York on December 3, 1865, and arrived in San Francisco on March 11, 1866 of that after a voyage of 97 days, carrying Central Pacific locomotive CP 10.{{Cite journal
|last=Huffman
|first=Wendell
|title=Railroads Shipped by Sea
|journal=Railroad History
|volume=180
|date=Spring 1999
|issue=180
|pages=7–30
|publisher=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society
|location=Westford, Mass.
|url=http://cprr.org/Museum/RR_Shipped_by_Sea.html
|jstor=43522103}}
References
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Category:Individual sailing vessels
Category:Ships built in Mystic, Connecticut
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