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List of people who sailed on clipper ships

Captains

Crew members

  • Adelbert Ames—Mate on a clipper, seaman on his father's ship. Became a Union general in the Civil War, Reconstruction era politician, and Spanish–American War general.
  • Hobart Bosworth—Cabin boy. Became a famous actor.
  • David Bernard Clarke—2nd Mate on the Surrey Official No. 12873 and the Challenger No. 10707 and 1st Mate on the Red Deer No. 47387.
  • Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast
  • Michael Healy—Cabin boy on a clipper. Became the first African-American to command a ship of the United States government.
  • Benjamin Cheever Howard—Mate on Witchcraft, Golden Fleece, & Rising Son. Letters written from clippers at Bancroft Library & Peabody Essex Museum. Early San Francisco businessman (Howard & Pool).
  • Edmund Rice—Apprentice to a clipper captain. Became a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War.
  • Alan Villiers, seaman and writer.

Passengers

Travellers

  • Charles Keeler—American author, adventure, poet, naturalist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture. Traveled around Cape Horn on the clipper Charmer in 1893.
  • Sara Delano Roosevelt—Mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Voyage to China at age eleven on the Surprise, with her mother and six brothers and sisters.
  • Corliss P. Stone—Elected Mayor of Seattle, 1872. Arrived on the West Coast on the clipper ship Archer.

Missionaries to China

References