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Saturday 1 December 2012

American packet clipper ship Orpheus 1856-1875


Launched on 1 March 1856 at the shipyard of Rice&Mitchell, Chelsea, Massachusetts with a measurement of 1.067 (new)-1.272 (old) tons, a deadweight capacity of 1.500 short tons and as dimensions 200‘ (over all) x 32‘ x 23‘. Built of W.F. Weld&Co. at Boston and in the 70‘s  sold C.L. Taylor&Co. Of San Francisco. On 4 November 1875 collided with the steamship Pacific underway from San Francisco to Puget Sound loaded with coal. Despite they managed to keep her floating she was beached two days later when a light was mistaken. Her wreck was sold.