Carrier Dove (clipper)
''Carrier Dove'' was an 1855 medium clipper. She was one of two well-known clippers launched in Baltimore that year, the other being ''Mary Whitridge''. Construction ''Carrier Dove'', like ''Andrew Jackson (clipper), Andrew Jackson'' of Mystic, ''Mary Whitridge'' of Baltimore, and ''Flying Mist'' of Medford, was a medium clipper, built on a practical modification of clipper ship lines. She combined much of the speed of the sleek, early 1850s extreme clippers with the larger cargo capacity of the fuller-bottomed traditional packet ships. Voyages ''Carrier Dove'' was dismasted in a hurricane just eight days out of New York City on her maiden voyage to San Francisco in 1855. Nevertheless, she made it to Rio de Janeiro on November 9, in 55 days. She remained in Rio for two months for repairs. The remainder of her trip around the Horn was more favorable, and she arrived in San Francisco on April 25, 1856, after a voyage of 98 days. Her voyage from New York to San Francisco in 1860 ...
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country at 2.84 million residents. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region together with the surrounding county that shares its name. The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there. People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe and established the Town ...
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