YOUNG AMERICA Clipper 1853

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Built as a three-masted wooden extreme clipper by William H.Webb, New York for George B. Daniels, New York.
30 April 1853 launched as the YOUNG AMERICA.
Tonnage 1,440 gross, dim.74.1 x 13.2 x 8.2m
Building cost USA$140,000.

She was managed by Abram Bell’s & Sons in New York.
10 June 1853 sailed out from New York for her maiden voyage to San Francisco under command of David S. Babcock, via Cape Horn, arriving San Francisco on 29 September after a passage of 110 days. Gross earnings for this voyage were $86,400.
Sailed after discharging in 12 days from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1 January 1854 sailed from Honolulu and after a passage of 96 days arrived in New York on 07 April.
Then she made a voyage again from New York via San Francisco to Hong Kong.
1857 Made a voyage from Hong Kong with on board 970 Chinese emigrants to Robe in South Australia, to work in the goldfields. She made the passage in 37 days.
The same year on 31 July she sailed from Rangoon to Falmouth for orders arriving 30 October after a passage of 91 days.
Then the next year she made a voyage with 289 passengers from Liverpool to Melbourne.
Then she went to the Singapore and after loading she sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to New York where she arrived December 1858.
1859 Command was taken over by Captain Nathaniel Brown, Jr.
18 March 1859 on a voyage from New York to San Francisco she was dismasted and had to make a call at Rio de Janeiro for repairs.
Arrived 24 July 1859 in San Francisco after a passage of 175 days from New York.
Her return to New York was much faster she arrived after a passage of 100 days.
1860 Sold to Abram Bell’s & Sons, New York. Command taken over by Captain Carlisle.
She crossed the North Atlantic bound for Liverpool in 14 days.
1860 She made a voyage between Liverpool and Melbourne, then to Callao, Peru.
From Peru she sailed to Liverpool where she arrived after a passage of 86 days.
1861 Sailed back to New York in 30 days.
Made an other crossing of the North Atlantic to the U.K., she sailed 1 November 1861 from Glasgow to Oamaru, New Zealand where she arrived on 02 February 1862 with on board 1,100 sheep for Mr. Holmes.
She was the first vessel direct from Europe for Oamaru.
After she dropped anchor on the road she was driven out again by a gale with the loss of an anchor and chain. She arrived Dunedin Port 04 February. Three seamen of the ship jumped ship and tried to swim to shore but two drowned. (most probably to try there luck in the goldfields in New Zealand).
From New Zealand she headed for Callao where she loaded for Antwerp, during the voyage she was dismasted in a tornado in 9 N 32W and made a call at Plymouth, U.K. for repair.
1863 Command taken over by Captain Jones.
Under his command she made a voyage from New York to San Francisco then to Liverpool before returning to New York, arriving New York 14 May 1864.
1864 Command was taken over by Captain Coming.
1865 She made a voyage from Manila to New York with a cargo of sugar and hemp, made the passage in 100 days.
1865 After arrival sold to Robert L. Taylor.
03 December 1868 was she dismasted in a pampero off the Rio de la Plata, she was refitted at sea with a jury rig and continued her voyage to San Francisco.
Repaired in San Francisco for USA$ 18,000.
15 March 1870 sailed from San Francisco bound for New York where she arrived on 06 June after a passage of 83 days, which was a record for a loaded cargo vessel.
02 October 1870 stranded on a reef near Cape St Roque, Brazil, after jettisoned part of her cargo she was refloated without serious damage.
1870 was she sold to George Howes & Co., New York and San Francisco.
Was used by him in the same trade between New York, San Francisco and Liverpool.
1880 The fleet of George Howes & Co was taken over by John Rosenfield in San Francisco
Her last voyage under USA flag was under command of Captain Charles Matthews from San Francisco to New York where she arrived 06 October 1883.
1883 Sold in New York to Austman of Buccari, Austria (now Bakar, Croatie) for USA$13.500 renamed in MIROSLAV.
She was then used in the case oil trade across the Atlantic.
After two transatlantic voyages she went missing.
17 February 1886 passed the Delaware Breakwater outward bound from Philadelphia for Fiume now Rijeka) under command of Captain Vlassich with on board 9700 barrels of crude oil with a total value of USA$26,965.
That was the last time the MIROSLAV was seen.

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Source: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships ... 53%29.html
Otago witness. American Clipper Ships by Howe & Matthews. Greyhounds of the Sea by Cutler.

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