Palmer List of Merchant Vessels


 

SEA LARK (1852)

The U.S. ship SEA LARK was a reputed clipper, 973 tons, built at Trescott, Maine, in 1852, and owned by Samuel G. Reed of Boston and E. Mott Robinson of New Bedford, owners of most probably the largest number of clippers operating under the American flag. In 1854 and early 1855, Jacob T. Woodbury, master, she was advertised in the S Line of New York-Antwerp packets; later in 1855, Charles Adams, master, she was also advertised in Tapscott's Line of New York-Liverpool packets. She was sunk by the CSS ALABAMA on 3 May 1863, although where and under what circumstances I have been unable to determine.

Sources: William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, [1945-55]), V.3105 and 3554, VI.3869; Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961), pp. 388 and 398.

[14 Aug 1997]


SENATOR IKEN (1860)

The Bremen ship SENATOR IKEN was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann Lange, for the Bremen firm of J. W. F. Iken & Co, and was launched on 18 July 1860. International Signal Code: QBPJ. The SENATOR IKEN was one of the largest wooden sailing vessels built by Lange: 571 Commerzlasten / 1,247 tons register; 53,8 x 11,4 x 6,7 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). In 1862, the SENATOR IKEN was owned by the Bremen firm of E. Iken & Co. In 1863, the vessel was sold for 7,000 Taler to Seidenburg, Wendt & Co, Bremen (1/4), who also acted as managers, Warncken & Sohn (1/4), Hermann Georg Rodewald (1/8), and the current master of the ship, Nicolaus Dannemann (1/8). Masters of the SENATOR IKEN while she sailed under the Bremen flag were, in turn, Daniel Beenken, Carl Heinrich Werner Schierenbeck, Nicolaus Dannemann, and from 1867, Berend Schumacher. An account of life for the crew on board the SENATOR IKEN under Captain Dannemann is contained in the letters of Paul Mewes, who served as an apprentice seaman aboard the vessel in 1863 and 1864; these letters are now deposited in the Schiffahrtsmuseum in Rostock, and have been published in Paul Mewes, Grusst alle, nächstens mehr; Briefe und Zeichnungen des Segelschiffsmatrosen Paul Mewes 1860-1865, ed. I. Schmidt (Rostock: Hinstorff, 1981). In December 1865, the SENATOR IKEN, Dannemann, master, arrived at New York from Hamburg after a very stormy passage, during which 8 children were born and 18 passengers died. In 1879, the SENATOR IKEN was re-rigged as a bark, and in 1893 she was sold to D. Heinrichs, of Bremerhaven. On 31 December 1895, the SENATOR IKEN, Th. Henke, master, bound from Philadelphia for Marseilles with a cargo of Petroleum, was towed, leaky, into Ponta Delagada, in the Azores, where she was condemned as irreparable.

Source; Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), pp. 235-236, no. 245.

[27 Aug 1998]


Italian steamship SERAVALLE [1896] - See: WESER (1867)


SEWALL (1851)

The U.S. ship SEWALL was built at Richmond, Maine, by T. J. Southard in 1851. 597 tons; 142.2 x 30.2 x 15.1 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). She was registered, at least initially, at Boston. In 1851, Capt. Lewis J. Manson, the SEWALL was advertised as sailing in the Corner Line of sailing packets between Baltimore and Liverpool.

Sources: William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, Maine: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, [1945-55]), vol. 5, p. 3314; Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961), p. 409.

Voyages:

  1. Ship SEWALL, of Boston, Merrow, arrived at New York on 4 February 1852, 40 days from Havre, to Taylor & Merrill.
  2. Ship SEWALL, of Boston, Merrow, arrived at New York on 2 May 1853 (passenger manifest dated 4 May), 35 days from Havre, with 317 passengers, to C. Duncan & Co.
  3. Ship SEWALL, Merrow, arrived at New Orleans on 2 May 1855, from Antwerp 19 March 1855, with 2 cabin and 180 steerage passengers, to J. P. Whitney & Co.
  4. Ship SEWALL, Morrell, arrived at New Orleans on Sunday, 21 February 1858 (passenger manifest dated Monday, 22 February), from Havre 11 December 1857, with merchandise (and passengers) to Baxter, Lovell & Co.

[21 Feb 2001]