Coeur de Lion

A clipper ship built in 1854 by George Raynes, Portsmouth, NH, USA. Dimensions 182'×36'×22' and tonnage 1098 tons. Swedish measurement was 889 tons.

1854 January 3: Launched at the shipyard of George Raynes, Portsmouth, NH, for George W. Tucker in the same city.
1854 February 5: Left Boston for San Francisco where she arrived after 133 days.
1855 April 4 - August 2: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 121 days.
1856 December 8: Arrived at Calcutta with British troops from Hong Kong after 26 days.
1860: Sold the Russian-American Fur Company and was renamed the Zaritza.
1871 January 9: Bought by C.A. Svahn, Kungsbacka, Sweden, from Hans Smith & Fedor Parlour, Kronstadt, and Fedor Tschetschuvin, Helsingfors, for £ 2250.
1873: B.L. Hammarberg, Kungsbacka, Sweden, became the managing owner.
1879: Sold to Peter Leffler, Gothenburg.
1891: Sold to Johan Frans Skantze, Kungsbacka.
1900 March: Sold to Sigrid Björkegren & Co., Simrishamn, Sweden, and was re-rigged as a barque.
1905: Registered as owned by the Rederi AB Zaritza (L.J. Björkegren & Co.), Simrishamn, Sweden,
1905: Sailed from Söderhamn to London with a cargo of deals.
1915 May: Sold to Ernst Beckman, Kivik, for SEK 19.500.
1915 September 1: Sank after a collision in the Baltic with SS Rossmer, Lidköping.

Clipper ships, general references.
Brighton, Ray: Clippers of the Port of Portsmouth and the Men Who Built Them.
Peter E. Randall, Portsmouth, NH, 1984: 8vo, 178 pp, ill. Portsmouth Marine Society Publication Five.
Ericsson, Anders: Svenska barkskepp och fullriggare under cirka 100 år.
Unpublished work.
[McLean, Duncan]: The New Clipper Ship Coeur de Lion, of Boston.
The Boston Daily Atlas, 1854, January 23.
Ramgren, Björn: Barkskeppet Zaritza av Cimbrishamn.
Båtologen Ärg. 34, Viken, 1996. pp 202-204, ill.

Updated 1999-01-23 by Lars Bruzelius