Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks by James P. Delgado; Clive Cussler

Author:James P. Delgado; Clive Cussler
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Oceania, Transportation, Sailing, HIS000000, Sports & Recreation, General, Ships & Shipbuilding, Shipwrecks, Underwater archaeology, History
ISBN: 9781553650713
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 2004-08-04T00:33:54+00:00

GENERAL HARRISON AND GOLD RUSH DAYS

The product of the venerable New England seafaring town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, General Harrison was launched from the banks of the Merrimack River in the spring of 1840. Built for a group of local merchants, General Harrison worked as a coastal packet out of Boston and New York, running south to New Orleans with passengers and cargo, then returning north with southern cotton. In 1846, the ship’s owners sold her to a consortium of well-known and moneyed Charlestown residents who had mercantile links to Pacific Coast ports from Chile to Alaska as well as Hawaii and China. The new owners sent General Harrison on a sixteen-month voyage around the world. After trading at Valparaiso, Tahiti, Hawaii and Hong Kong, she returned to New York in 1847. A new owner, Thomas H. Perkins, Jr., son of America’s richest man of the day, kept the ship in his fleet until 1849, the year of the exciting news that gold had been discovered in California.

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