| Date of launch | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Place of launch | East Boston |
| Type | 3-masted wooden ship |
| GRT | 1500 |
| NRT | - |
| DWT | - |
| Length | - |
| Beam | - |
| Draft | - |
- 1850
The wooden clipper Stag Hound was built by Donald McKay, East Boston, for Boston merchants George B. Upton and Sampson & Tappan to be used to carry gold diggers to the gold rush in California. She was McKay's first clipper ship and the largest merchant vessel in the world. She was rigged as a three-masted full-rigged ship carrying royals over single top- and topgallant sails, and a main skysail. - 12 October 1861
Her cargo of coal from Sunderland for San Francisco caught fire off Pernambuco. The crew abandoned the ship and she burned down.
References:
- Björn O. Svensson: De sista fraktseglarna, ISBN 91-85330-47-7, published by Bokförlaget Signum, Lund 1982
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