List of people who sailed on clipper ships

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.^[1]
• Corliss P. Stone—Elected Mayor of Seattle, 1872. Arrived on the West Coast on the clipper ship Archer.^[2]

Missionaries to China

• Otis Gibson and Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson. Sailed on a clipper for a mission to China a few months after their marriage.^[3]
• James Joseph Meadows—One of the first missionaries of the China Inland Mission.
• Hudson Taylor—Protestant missionary, founder of the China Inland Mission. Spent 51 years in China.

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.^[4]
• Hobart Bosworth—Cabin boy. Became a famous actor.
• David Bernard Clarke—2nd Mate on the Surrey Official No. 12873 ^[5] and the Challenger No. 10707 ^[6] and 1st Mate on the Red Deer No. 47387.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 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 (general)—Apprentice to a clipper captain. Became a Brigadier General.^[9]

Captains

• Garibaldi—Italian national hero. Captained a Peruvian clipper.
• Joseph Warren Holmes—American sea captain who sailed around Cape Horn 84 times; command of clipper Seminole.^[10]
• Nathaniel Palmer—American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
• Robert Waterman (sea captain)—Clipper captain famous for making record-breaking times and for being rough on his crews.^[11][12]

References

1. Butow, By R.J.C. (Fall 1999). "A Notable Passage to China, Myth and Memory in FDR's Family History". Prologue Magazine (Washington, DC: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) 31 (3). Retrieved June 11, 2010.
2. A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, Washington. New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co. 1903. p. 167.
3. Gibson, Eliza C. (1916), A Trip to China, California Christian Advocate
4. Warner, Ezra J (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7.
5. <BT122/30 at TNA>
6. <BT122/29 at the TNA>
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8. http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/HealyMichaelIndex.asp
9. Nitch, Steven (November–December 2006). "VISIONS OF HONOR: A Special Look at Gettysburg Medal of Honor recipient Brigadier General Edmund Rice". FindArticles. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
10. "University of Connecticut Digital Mosaic". Captain Joseph Warren Holmes of Mystic. University of CT. 2009 [1908]. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
11. "The Sea Witch". eraoftheclipperships.com. 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
12. D. Blethen Adams Levy (2009). "Captain Robert "Bully" Waterman". The Maritime Heritage Project. Retrieved September 25, 2009.