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Sunday, 14 June 2015

American clipper Stag Hound arrived at San Francisco, USA coming from Boston, USA according to the American newspaper Sacramento Daily Union dated 23 April 1857

An item dated San Francisco, USA 22nd reported that the American clipper Stag Hound captain Peterson arrived that afternoon after a voyage of 108 days coming from Boston, USA with a cargo for R.B. Swain&Co.(1)

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1. Launched at the shipyard of Donald McKay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA  for account of George B. Upton and Sampson&Tappan, Boston on 7 December 1850 and lost by fire on 12 October 1861. Dimensions 207 (keel)-215 (between perpendiculars)-226 (over all0 x 39.8 x 21 (depth of hold) feet, a tonnage of 1.534 tons and an old measurement of around 1.100 tons.