California (Dutch ship)

History

Netherlands
Owner:	L. Bienfait & sn.
Builder:	Fop Smit
Launched:	1853
General characteristics
Class and type:	Clipper
Tons burthen:	663 tons

For other ships with the same name, see California (disambiguation).

California (663 tons) is the most famous of four Dutch clippers launched in 1853. An iron-hulled clipper, she was built by Fop Smit and mastered by F.C. Jaski for the company L. Bienfait & sn. On the maiden voyage Jaski sailed her in 86 days from The Downs to Port Adelaide, delivering a hundred English immigrants.

References

Clipper ships, designers and builders

American-built early clippers (in year order)	Anglona (1840) Ariel (1842) Houqua (1844)

American-built extreme clippers, 1845–50 (in year order)	Rainbow (1845) Sea Witch (1846) Memnon (1848) Ticonderoga (1849) Game Cock (1850) Race Horse (barque) (1850) Sea Serpent (1850) Stag Hound (1850) Surprise (1850) Witchcraft (1850)

American-built extreme clippers, 1851–55	Blue Jacket (1854) Challenger (1853) Champion of the Seas (1854) Comet (1851) Flying Cloud (1851) Golden West (1852) Great Republic (barque) (1853) Hornet (1851) Ino (1851) James Baines (1854) John Gilpin (1852) Lightning (1853) N.B. Palmer (1851) Nightingale (1851) Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade (1854) Onward (1852) Red Jacket (1853) Shooting Star (1851) Sovereign of the Seas (1852) Sunny South (1854) Syren (1851) Sweepstakes (1853) Swordfish (1851) Westward Ho! (1852) White Swallow (1853) Witch of the Wave (1851) Young America (1853)

American-built medium clippers, 1851–55	Andrew Jackson (1855) Antelope of Boston (1851) Carrier Dove (1855) Carrier Pigeon (1852) Celestial Empire (1852) Flying Childers (1852) Ganges (1854) Golden Fleece (1855) Harriet Hoxie (1851) Herald of the Morning (1853) Kingfisher (1853) Lookout (1853) Mary Robinson (1854) Starlight (1854)

American-built clippers and medium clippers, 1856–59	King Philip (1856) Seminole (1865) Thatcher Magoun (1856)

American-built clippers and medium clippers, 1860s	Cremorne (1863) Shooting Star (1867)

British-built "Aberdeen" clippers, 1839–58	Challenger (1852) Lammermuir (1856) Lord of the Isles (1853) Mimosa (1853) Robin Hood (1856) Stornoway (1850)

British-built newer style clippers, 1859–70	Ariel (composite) (1865) Blackadder (iron) (1870) Cimba City of Adelaide (composite) (1864) Cutty Sark (composite) (1869) Fiery Cross (1860) Flying Spur (1860) Hallowe'en (iron) (1870) Lahloo (composite) (1867) Lammermuir (composite) (1864) Leander (composite) (1867) Lothair (composite) (1870) Norman Court (composite) (1869) Serica (1863) Sir Lancelot (composite) (1865) Taeping (composite) (1863) Taitsing (composite) (1865) Tayleur (iron) (1864) Thermopylae (composite) (1868)

Dutch-built clippers	California Kosmopoliet Stad Amsterdam Cisne Branco Shabab Oman II

Canadian-built clippers	Marco Polo (1851) Stag (1854)

American designers and builders	Curtis, James O. Curtis, Paul Curtis, Paul & Taylor Fernald & Pettigrew Griffiths, John Willis McKay, Donald Palmer, Nathaniel Pook, Samuel Hartt Webb, William H Westervelt, Jacob A.

British designers and builders	Linton, Hercules Lithgow, William Russell, John Scott Scott & Linton Pile, William Robert Steele & Company

Surviving 19th century clippers	City of Adelaide Cutty Sark

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