Category:Circassian (ship, 1856)
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Ship
edit- Type: Passenger/cargo steamship, then sailing ship
- Built by: Robert Hickson, Belfast
- Yard No:
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1856.07.18
- Completed: 1856.12
- Length over all: 255.0 ft
- Beam: 39.2 ft
- GRT: 1538
- DWT:
- shippingandshipbuilding.uk
- www.southamptonhistory.org
- British and American Claims: British Claims No. 1 to 478
- www.navsource.org
- www.advertiser.ie
- Statistical Data of U.S. Ships
History
edit- 1856 Named Circassian; Flag: United Kingdom
- Official number: 17838
- Port: Liverpool
- Owner: James Johnson
- 1860 Owner: Richard Taylor
- 1861.07 Owner: Zachariah Charles Pearson
- Signal letters: MJHD
- Port: London
- 1862.05.04 Captured by USS Somerset (1862) for attempting to run blockade of New Orleans
- 1862.12 Commissioned as USS Circassian; Flag: United States
- 1865.06 Owner: Arthur Leary
- Port: New York City
- Operator: Ruger Brothers Line
- 1873 Engine removed; converted to sailing barque
- 1874 Flag: United Kingdom
- Signal letters: WSHP
- Port: Liverpool
- Owner: T.A. de Wolf
- 1876.12.11 Grounded on Mecox Bay, Long Island
- 1876.12.30 Wrecked
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