The Chariot of Fame was a three-masted, square-rigged 'medium clipper' ship, built at East Boston, Massachusetts, by Donald McKay, for Enoch Train & Co., Boston, for their White Diamond packet line between Boston and Liverpool, and launched in April 1853.
Dimensions 220'×43'×27'6" and tonnage 1639.
For the first year the Chariot of Fame sailed out of American ports as a packet vessel. After this the vessel was chartered by the White Star Line of Australian packets and made a number of good passages to Australia from England in 1854 and 1855.
In 1862 the vessel was sold in London and the vessel came out to Australia and New Zealand on several more voyages. She left Queenstown on 7 October 1863 and arrived at Auckland 8 January 1864 with 520 troops for the Maori War. She left London 29 October 1862 and arrived in Lyttelton 29 January 1863 with 430 Government immigrants and 30 passengers.
The Chariot of Fame was reported abandoned at sea in January 1876 when bound from Chincha Islands to Cork.
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