Mastiff

A medium clipper built in 1856 by Donald McKay, East Boston, MA, for George B. Upton, Boston, for the California and China trade. Dimensions 168'8"x36'5"x22'5", and tonnage 1034 tons. 

1856 February 
     Launched at Donald McKay's Yard at East Boston. 
1856 March 7 
     Left Boston for San Francisco under command of Captain William O.
     Johnson. 
1859 September 15 
     Caught fire en route for the Sandwich Islands and was lost. The entire
     crew and passengers were all saved by the British ship Achilles and were
     brought to Honolulu. 

     The disaster was described in the diary of Richard Henry Dana who was
     one of the passengers aboard.
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Select Bibliography: 

     Richard McKay: Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder Donald
     McKay. 1928. pp 312-316. 
     Donald McLean: The New Clipper ship, Mastiff, of New York 
     Boston Daily Atlas, 1856. February 6.

Updated 1995-12-21 by Lars_Bruzelius@udac.uu.se
Derived from the The Maritime History Virtual Archives