List of people who sailed on clipper ships explained

Captains

• Garibaldi—Italian national hero. Captained a Peruvian clipper.
• Gemmill - Scotland, then USA
• William D. Gregory, captain of the clipper Tejuca, which sank during a hurricane in 1856.
• Joseph Warren Holmes—American sea captain who sailed around Cape Horn 84 times; command of clipper Seminole.^[1]
• Nathaniel Palmer—American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
• Robert Waterman (sea captain)—Clipper captain famous for making record-breaking times and for being rough on his crews.^{[2] [3]}

Crew members

• Adelbert Ames—Mate on a clipper, seaman on his father’s ship. Became a Union general in the Civil War, Reconstruction era politician, and Spanish–American War general.^[4]
• Hobart Bosworth—Cabin boy. Became a famous actor.
• David Bernard Clarke—2nd Mate on the Surrey Official No. 12873 ^[5] and the Challenger No. 10707 ^[6] and 1st Mate on the Red Deer No. 47387.^[7]
• Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast
• Michael Healy—Cabin boy on a clipper. Became the first African-American to command a ship of the United States government.^[8]
• Benjamin Cheever Howard—Mate on Witchcraft, Golden Fleece, & Rising Son. Letters written from clippers at Bancroft Library & Peabody Essex Museum. Early San Francisco businessman (Howard & Pool).
• Edmund Rice—Apprentice to a clipper captain. Became a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War.^[9]

Passengers

Travellers

• Charles Keeler—American author, adventure, poet, naturalist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture. Traveled around Cape Horn on the clipper Charmer in 1893.
• Sara Delano Roosevelt—Mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Voyage to China at age eleven on the Surprise, with her mother and six brothers and sisters.^[10]
• Corliss P. Stone—Elected Mayor of Seattle, 1872. Arrived on the West Coast on the clipper ship Archer.^[11]

Missionaries to China

• Otis Gibson and Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson. Sailed on a clipper for a mission to China a few months after their marriage.^[12]
• James Joseph Meadows—One of the first missionaries of the China Inland Mission.
• Hudson Taylor—Protestant missionary, founder of the China Inland Mission. Spent 51 years in China.

Notes and References

1. Web site: University of Connecticut Digital Mosaic . Captain Joseph Warren Holmes of Mystic . University of CT . 1908 . 2009 . May 9, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720073726/http://images.lib.uconn.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcho&CISOPTR=11742 . July 20, 2011 .
2. Web site: 2009 . The Sea Witch. eraoftheclipperships.com. September 25, 2009 .
3. Web site: 2009 . Captain Robert "Bully" Waterman. The Maritime Heritage Project. September 25, 2009 . D. Blethen Adams Levy .
4. Book: Warner, Ezra J . Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. 1964 . Louisiana State University Press . Baton Rouge. 0-8071-0822-7. 5. registration.
8. Web site: Captain Michael A. Healy, USRCS . 2010-09-30 . 2017-05-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170502032020/http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/HealyMichaelIndex.asp . dead .
9. Web site: Nitch . Steven . VISIONS OF HONOR: A Special Look at Gettysburg Medal of Honor recipient Brigadier General Edmund Rice . FindArticles . November–December 2006 . 2007-05-30 .
10. Butow . By R.J.C. . Robert Butow . A Notable Passage to China, Myth and Memory in FDR's Family History . Prologue Magazine . 31 . 3 . The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration . Washington, DC . Fall 1999 . June 11, 2010.
11. Book: A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, Washington. 1903. Lewis Publishing Co. New York and Chicago. 167. https://web.archive.org/web/20100929155902/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/cpstone.txt. 2010-09-29. dead.
12. Gibson, Eliza C. (1916), A Trip to China , California Christian Advocate