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Lot Essay
The clipper ship Archer was launched on December 29, 1852. Built for the firm of Crocker and Warren of New York, she measured 176' x 37' x 21.5' and weighed 905 tons. From 1853 to 1872, she made eleven passages between either New York or Boston and San Francisco, averaging 188 days per voyage. She was a regular trader between New York or Boston and San Francisco. She also travelled to the Orient.
The Archer had several mishaps in her career. In 1865. she was put on a sand bar by her Chinese pilot and had to be drydocked for repairs. The following year, between Foo-Chow and New York, she was thrown on her beam ends in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras and was badly strained. In 1867, she spent thirty days rounding The Horn, badly loosening everything forward, which required constant pumping during the remainder of the her trip. In addition to the usual loss of spars encountered by many clippers, Archer was once struck by lightning off the Horn, though no damage resulted.
Among her different masters were Captains Bursley, Thomas, Osgood, Crowell and Josiah P. Cressy (ofFlying Cloud). On February 12, 1880, Archer, then bark-rigged floudered at sea while on a passage from New York to Le Havre. The crew was taken off by the steamer Naworth Castle, which landed them at Sunderland.
The Archer had several mishaps in her career. In 1865. she was put on a sand bar by her Chinese pilot and had to be drydocked for repairs. The following year, between Foo-Chow and New York, she was thrown on her beam ends in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras and was badly strained. In 1867, she spent thirty days rounding The Horn, badly loosening everything forward, which required constant pumping during the remainder of the her trip. In addition to the usual loss of spars encountered by many clippers, Archer was once struck by lightning off the Horn, though no damage resulted.
Among her different masters were Captains Bursley, Thomas, Osgood, Crowell and Josiah P. Cressy (ofFlying Cloud). On February 12, 1880, Archer, then bark-rigged floudered at sea while on a passage from New York to Le Havre. The crew was taken off by the steamer Naworth Castle, which landed them at Sunderland.