The British bark BALTASARA was built at Bristol in 1840. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1839/40 through 1869/70 give the following information:

Tonnage:
     1839/40-1856/57 - 282/331 (old/new measurement)
     1857/58-1869/70 - 294

Master:
     1839/40-1840/41 - D. Mason
     1841/42-1845/46 - Kirton
     1845/46-1851/52 - Webb
     1851/52-1853/54 - Mason
     1854/55-1856/57 - T. A. Boulton
     1857/58-1860/61 - B. Collins
     1861/62-1869/70 - N. Robinson

Owner:
     1839/40-1840/41 - Huth & Co.
     1841/42-1853/54 - Wilcox & Co.
     1854/55-1856/57 - Taylor & S
     1857/58-1860/61 - Finch & Co.
     1861/62-1869/70 - G. Thomes

Port of Registry:  London

Port of Survey:
     1839/40-1843/44 - Bristol
     1843/44-1845/46 - London
     1845/46-1847/48 - Liverpool
     1848/49         - Swansea
     1848/49-1851/52 - Liverpool
     1851/52-1852/53 - London
     1853/54         - [not given]
     1854/55-1857/58 - London
     1858/59         - [not given]
     1859/60         - London
     1860/61         - [not given]
     1861/62-1869/70 - London

Destined Voyages:
     1839/40-1844/45 - [not given]
     1845/45-1851/52 - Valparaiso
     1852/53-1856/57 - [not given]
     1857/58         - Algoa Bay
     1858/59         - [not given]
     1859/60         - Algoa Bay
     1860/61         - [not given]
     1861/62-1869/70 - India

Although the BALTASARA last appears in Lloyd's Register for 1869/70, she was last surveyed in August 1860, and it is probable that she was sold foreign, lost, or dismantled within a year or two of her last survey (in the mid-19th century, Lloyd's Register routinely continued to carry the names of vessels after their careers had ended, until notified by the last owners).

The U.S. ship BALTIMORE was built at Williamsburg, New York, by Jacob A. Westervelt & Roberts in 1836, and was first registered at New York on 1 April 1837. 658 tons; 139 ft x 32 ft 6 in x 22 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks; square stern; woman figurehead. Owners: Jacob A. Westervelt (builder), Robert Carnley, Jr., William W. Pell, and Capt. James Fun[c]k. The BALTIMORE was built for Boyd & Hincken's Second Line of packets between New York and Le Havre, for which line she sailed from 1837 to 1851; during this period her westbound passages averaged 39 days, her shortest passage being 22 days, her longest 78. By 1853, the BALTIMORE was too small and outmoded for the highly competitive packet trade, and she was sold to Simon Lesuman and Emeline Sly, of New York, who placed her under the command of Capt. Frederick B. Northrup. I know nothing of her subsequent history or ultimate fate.

Sources: Forrest R. Holdcamper,comp., List of American-flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867 (Record Groups 41 and 36), National Archives Publication 68-10, Special Lists 22 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1968), p. 70; Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), p. 284-285; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Collection to be found at India House (2nd ed.; Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, c1973), p. 5, no. 10.

The U.S. ship BAVARIA was built at New York by William H. Webb (hull #26), and launched in August 1846. 908 tons; 160 ft x 35 ft 6 in x 21 ft (length x beam x depth of hold).

From 1846 to 1853, the BAVARIA sailed in William H. Whitlock's line of packets between New York and Le Havre, during which time her westbound passages averaged 33 days (the fastest of any vessel in Whitlock's line), her shortest passage being 23 days, her longest 44. Early in 1853, the BAVARIA was removed from line service (Capt. Anthony retiring to his birthplace of New Bedford, where he died in 1875) and on 14 February of that year she cleared New York for Melbourne under Capt. Bailey; she arrived back at New York on 26 November 1853, after a fast passage of 65 days.

The BAVARIA made at least two voyages to San Francisco and the Far East during the Civil War, in 1863 under Capt. Warren, and in May 1864 under Capt. Higgins. In 1866, she was advertised as sailing in Tupper & Beattie's line of coastal packets between New York and New Orleans (her presence on this route is unusual, since by the end of the Civil War, steam vessels had all but supplanted sailing vessels on coastwise routes).

The BAVARIA continued as a Whitlock transient under Capt. Levi Smith until September 1873, when she was sold to Oulton Brothers, of St. John, New Brunswick, who renamed her CHARLES H. OULTON and registered her at St. John. About a year later she was reportedly owned by A. L. Palmer, and shortly afterwards by D. J. McLaughlin, Jr., both of St. John. She was reported by the American Shipmasters Association to have been broken up (meaning, most probably, that her spars, rigging, and other useable gear had been removed and her hull either cast aside or burned for the metal fittings) in 1876, but was said still to be afloat as late as 1891 (her registry was closed on 9 March 1891), probably as a hulk.

Sources: Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 286-287; Edwin L. Dunbaugh and William duBarry Thomas, William H. Webb: Shipbuilder (Glen Cove, New York: Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, 1989), p. 167; Canadian Ship Information Database, No. 64591, quoting National Archives of Canada, RG 42, Vol. 1358 (original Vol. 147 = microfilm reel C-389), page 92.