Palmer List of Merchant Vessels

The U.S. ship RACE HOUND, 499 tons, was built at Thomaston, Maine, in 1851, and registered at New York on 16 February 1852, the same day that she cleared for California; her voyage to California thus almost certainly constituted her first "ocean" voyage.

Source: 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. 578.

[18 Dec 1997]

British ship RACEHORSE [1864] - See: MATILDA WATTENBACH (1853)

RALEIGH (1850)
FANNY [1872]

The British ship (later Hamburg bark) RALEIGH was built at London in 1850 (certificate of registry London 6 August 1850). 418/491 tons (old/new measurement). The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1851/52 through 1854/55 give her owner as Booth & Co, her master as J. Volum, port of registry London, port of survey London (the volume for 1851/52 also gives Liverpool), and the following destined voyages:

1851/52 - Adelaide; Rio [de Janeiro] 1852/53-1854/55 - Swan River

On 11 April 1854, the RALEIGH was purchased for £7,500 from Volum, London (Capt. Volum was probably part-owner of the vessel, and was acting here as agent for the others), by the Hamburg shipowner Robert M. Sloman, who retained her name, but re-rigged her as a bark. Measured at Hamburg as 175 Commerzlasten; 131.6 x 25.3 x 18.11 Hamburg Füße (1 Hamburg Fuß = .28657 meter), length x beam x depth of hold.

Masters: 1854-1856 - O. P. Nielsen 1856 - F. G. Herting 1856 - H. H. Paap 1857-1859 - C. Christiansen 1859 - J. A. M. Böthel 1859-1860 - H. Woortmann 1860-1867 - J. F. Heiderich 1868-1869 - F. G. Hensen 1869-1871 - E. C. R. Kopper 1871 - J. Brütt Voyages: 1854-1856 - New York/London/New Zealand/intermediate ports/Callao 1856 - New York (2 x) 1857/58 - Arica/Islay, Peru/Callao 1858 - New York 1859 - New York/London 1859/60 - London/New York 1860/61 - Dona Francisca/intermediate ports/Antwerp 1861 - New York 1861-1863 - Dona Francisca/intermediate ports/Liverpool 1863/64 - Dona Francisca/intermediate ports/London 1865/66 - Castries Bay (Siberia)/intermediate ports/London 1866/67 - New York 1867 - New York/intermediate ports/Bremerhaven 1868/69 - Dona Francisca/intermediate ports/Shields 1869-1871 - Dona Francisca/Callao/Hartlepool

On 14 March 1872, Sloman reported that the RALEIGH had been sold to C. Agrell, in Wustrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who renamed her FANNY. I know nothing of her later history or ultimate fate.

Sources: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5 (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, p. 210; Ernst Hieke, Rob. M. Sloman Jr., errichtet 1793, Veröffentlichungen der Wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungsstelle e.V., Hamburg, 30 (Hamburg: Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968), p. 373, no. 40.

Voyages:

Hamburg bark RALEIGH, O. P. Nielsen, master, arrived at New York on Sunday, 11 June 1854 (passenger manifest dated 12 June), 40 days from Hamburg, with merchandise and 216 passengers, to W. F. Schmidt & Co; "June 1, lat. 40, lon. 50, fell in with the Br[itish] bark BRITTON, from Charleston bound to Liverpool, 14 days out, in a sinking condition, having on the morning of the 31st May, at 3 o'clock, in a dense fog, struck an iceberg; took from her the captain, officers and crew and brought them to this port".

[20 Jul 1999]