The U.S. ship UTICA was built at New York by Christian Bergh & Co. in 1833. 525 tons; 131 ft 3 in x 29 ft 8 in x 14 ft 10 in (length x beam x depth of hold). She served in the Second Line of sailing packets between New York and Le Havre from 1833 to 1848, during which her average westward passage was 40 days, her shortest being 35 days, her longest 59 days. She was transferred to the California service in 1849. On the morning of Sunday, 23 June 1850, while anchored at San Francisco, she took fire in the hold. She was lying in the thickest part of the shipping, and in order to prevent the fire spreading to other vessels her cable was let slip, and she drifted in the direction of Yerba Buena Island, where she was scuttled in five fathoms of water; several days later, she was sold as she lay, full of water, for $1,650.

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. 284-285; 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. 324 and 394; Daily Alta California, 24 June 1850, p. 2c, and 28 June 1850, p. 2e.