Old Line Sailing Ship Henri IV
Henri IV (1826)
The U.S. ship HENRI IV was built at New York by Christian Bergh & Co
in 1826. 427 tons; 116 ft x 28 ft 8 in x 14 ft 4 in (length x beam x
depth of hold). She sailed for the Old Line of sailing packets between
New York and Le Havre from 1826 to 1837.
Master:
1826-1828 - William Skiddy
1828-1832 - John B. Pell
1832 - John Rockett
During her packet service, her westbound passages (from Le Havre to
New York) averaged 36 days, her shortest passage being 20 days (a time
not surpassed on the Le Havre-New York route until the ISAAC BELL,
which sailed for the same line from 1851 to 1854), her longest passage
55 days. Her most exciting passage, however, was not on the
trans-Atlantic route, but a coastal voyage. On 15 June 1829, the HENRI
IV, Pell, master, arrived at New York, eight days out of
Charleston. During the eight-day voyage Pell and his crew had rescued,
under conditions of extreme danger, the crews and passengers (in all,
over 50 individuals) of three sinking coastal packets: the schooner
CORAL, Jocelyn, master, with 21 members of the Charleston theatrical
company; the schooner GRAMPUS, Egen, master, from Charleston for
Philadelphia; and the schooner CATHERINE, Waring, master, from New
Orleans for New York.
In 1837, because of her small size and outdated accommodations, the
HENRI IV was released from the line and became a transient. She was
wrecked on the bar at the entrance to New York harbor on 25 December
1839, arriving from Mazatlan.
Sources: Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The
New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 284-285; Carl
C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail
and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute,
c1961), pp. 212-213.
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