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History |
United States |
Name | Margaret Evans |
Owner | E.E. Morgan
[1] |
Builder | Westervelt & MacKay, New York |
Laid down | 1846
[1] |
Homeport |
New York City |
Fate | Sank September 1865 in New York on a voyage from
Livorno
[2] |
General characteristics |
Type | Full rigged packet ship |
Tonnage | 899
[1] |
Length | 158.2 ft (48.2 m)
[1] |
Beam | 35.3 ft (10.8 m)
[1] |
Height | 21.3 ft (6.5 m)
[1] |
Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m)
[1] |
Decks | 3 (originally 2)
[1] |
The Margaret Evans was a
full rigged
packet ship laid down by
Westervelt & MacKay. She was a regular fixture of the mid-19th century
transatlantic
packet trade, sailing passengers and cargo to
New York from
London,
Liverpool and other British ports under the command of American Captain Edward Greenfield Tinker.
[3] She ferried scores of immigrants to North America, including the future wife of American businessman
Warren L. Wheaton and members of the
Putnam family.
[4] Her notoriety led to her memorialization in literature, visual art and song, and she is the subject of a well-known
sea shanty, "Eliza Lee," which has been recorded by
English folk singer
Johnny Collins and
Canadian
folk-punk band
The Dreadnoughts.
[5]
References
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New York Marine Register of Ships. New York, NY: American Lloyd's. 1858. p. 64. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5501. Liverpool. 16 September 1865.
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^ Arthur Hamilton, Clark (1911).
The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews (1843-1869) (3rd ed.). New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press. p. 89.
ISBN
9781539419228. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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^ Putnam, George Haven (1903).
A Memoir of George Palmer Putnam; Together with a Record of the Publishing House Founded by Him; Volume I. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 169.
ISBN
9781010140887. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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^ Eighteenth Annual Report (1920) from the Bergen County Historical Society, Hackensack, New Jersey (number 13, pages 61–62).
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