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Lynx, 1812, was an excellent example of a Baltimore clipper built by Thomas Kemp for the War of 1812. [6] HMS Black Joke (1827), the captured slave ship, originally was built as a slave ship, but ended up freeing several hundred slaves in service of the West Africa Squadron.
Built as a Baltimore clipper (possibly as the vessel Griffen [1]), Henriquetta (also Henri Quatre) was a brig designed to be fast. Brazilian owners purchased her in 1825, [1] and she worked for a slave dealer at Bahia, making £80,000 (about £8,290,000 in 2023, when adjusted for inflation), by running 3,040 slaves across to Brazil in six voyages over a period of three years.
The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, commissioned to represent Baltimore, Maryland. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) against British merchant shipping and the world-wide ...
Liverpool Packet was built at Baltimore and rigged as a Baltimore Clipper style schooner. HMS Tartarus captured the schooner in August 1811. The Halifax Vice Admiralty Court, under Chief Justice Alexander Croke, condemned Severn as an illegal slave ship as both Britain and the United States had recently outlawed the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
After abolition, slave ships adopted quicker, more maneuverable forms to evade capture by naval warships, one favorite form being the Baltimore Clipper. Some had hulls fitted with copper sheathing , which significantly increased speed by preventing the growth of marine weed on the hull, which would otherwise cause drag. [ 25 ]
Baltimore Clipper is the colloquial name for fast sailing ships of the 1800s built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. Pages in category "Baltimore Clipper"
Chasseur was a Baltimore Clipper commanded by Captains Pearl Durkee (February 1813), William Wade (1813) and Thomas Boyle (1814-1815). [1] She was one of the best equipped and crewed American privateers during the War of 1812 .
In the United States, the term "clipper" referred to the Baltimore clipper, a topsail schooner that was developed in Chesapeake Bay before the American Revolution and was lightly armed in the War of 1812, sailing under Letters of Marque and Reprisal, when the type—exemplified by the Chasseur, launched at Fells Point, Baltimore, 1814— became known for its incredible speed; a deep draft ...