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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Thatcher Magoun |
| Owner | Thatcher Magoun and Sons, Boston |
| Builder | Hayden & Cudworth, Medford, MA |
 Norway | |
| Renamed | Hercules |
| Fate | Reported lost off the coast of Africa in the early 1880s.[1] Listed in 1882 RAFS. Not listed 1884.[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Extreme clipper |
| Tons burthen | 1248 tons OM, 1155 tons NM[3] |
| Length | 200 ft. OA |
| Beam | 40 ft. |
| Draft | 24 ft.[2] |
The Thatcher Magoun was an extreme clipper launched in 1855. She was built in shipyards on the Mystic River at Medford, Massachusetts by shipbuilder Thatcher Magoun. Magoun died the year she was launched, and the ship was named after him.
Noting that the ship's figurehead resembled Magoun, in his book published in 1937, Hall Gleason described the ship, saying "Her figurehead was a life-like image of the father of ship building on the Mystic".[1]
- ^ a b Gleason, Hall (1937). Old Ships and Ship-Building Days of Medford. Medford, MA: J.C. Miller. p. 78.
- ^ a b Crothers, William L. (1997). The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, Details. Camden, ME: International Marine. pp. xvii. ISBN 0-07-014501-6.
- ^ Bruzelius, Lars (2000-01-08). "Clipper Ships Built in the United States: Massachusetts". The Virtual Maritime Archives. Retrieved May 8, 2010.