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:
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