The ship Baltimore, built at Williamsburg, New York, by Jacob A. Westervelt & Roberts in 1836.

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BALTIMORE (1836) - Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961), plate facing p. 202. Cutler does not indicate the owner of this picture, but it is probably the watercolor, 34 x 24 1/2 inches, inscribed "New York and Havre Packet Ship Baltimore, Captain James Funck, 1838. Drawn and painted by Frederick Hage, Bridgeport, Conn", now in the collections of India House, Hanover Square, New York.

The U.S. ship BALTIMORE was built at Williamsburg, New York, by Jacob A. Westervelt & Roberts in 1836, and was first registered at New York on 1 April 1837. 658 tons; 139 ft x 32 ft 6 in x 22 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks; square stern; woman figurehead. Owners: Jacob A. Westervelt (builder), Robert Carnley, Jr., William W. Pell, and Capt. James Fun[c]k. The BALTIMORE was built for Boyd & Hincken's Second Line of packets between New York and Le Havre, for which line she sailed from 1837 to 1851; during this period her westbound passages averaged 39 days, her shortest passage being 22 days, her longest 78. By 1853, the BALTIMORE was too small and outmoded for the highly competitive packet trade, and she was sold to Simon Lesuman and Emeline Sly, of New York, who placed her under the command of Capt. Frederick B. Northrup. I know nothing of her subsequent history or ultimate fate.

Sources: Forrest R. Holdcamper,comp., List of American-flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867 (Record Groups 41 and 36), National Archives Publication 68-10, Special Lists 22 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1968), p. 70; Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), p. 284-285; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Collection to be found at India House (2nd ed.; Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, c1973), p. 5, no. 10.

New York, USA

Source: Michael P. Palmer, Palmer List of Merchant Vessels (http://www.oocities.org/mppraetorius/ : Downloaded 7 January 2018), Ship Baltimore, 1836, http://www.oocities.org/mppraetorius/com-ba.htm.