S. D. Carleton

Date

2008

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Texas Tech University Libraries

Abstract

Ship Name: S. D. Carleton; Sailed: 1890-1914?; Type: Wood 3-masted; Built by: Bath, Maine by Flint & Co.; Dimensions: 240' x 44.4' x 25.4'; Tonnage: 1882 tons.

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S D Carleton was another Maine-built ship in the California trade, and one of the last built. S D Carleton also made passages to Shanghai. One particularly smart passage from New York to San Francisco in 106 days caused comment in the papers. The ship had a relatively uneventful career sailing on its owners’ account until 1899. The California Shipping Company bought S D Carleton and like so many others, the ship was chartered in the Pacific. The year 1911 found S D Carleton completing a voyage from San Francisco to New York in 144 days, but the ship disappeared from the register by 1914. I do not know its ultimate fate. S D Carleton was unusually-rigged among its peers in that the ship had double topgallants. The more usual rig manifested single topgallants.

Keywords

Merchant Ships, Ships

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