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Logansport Journal 12 May 1880, Logansport, Indiana, USA

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James McClintock is best known for pioneering Civil War submersibles like the CSS Pioneer and the H.L. Hunley. In 1880, he surfaced not with a new naval vessel, but as a mysterious agent
claiming to possess advanced submarine designs he offered to the British government.

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American Lloyd’s Register of American and Foreign Shipping 1880
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TROPIC ex PET ex COMMERCE
zbud 1862m Hartlepool, England
380t 141ft1in x 20ft3in x18ft4in
wlasciciel W.H.Hopkins, Philadelphia
reperacje 6'79 przeglad 7'79

Rejestry brytyjskie

PET iron 234grt 171nrt 141.3 x 20.6 x 11.4ft 2cy 50hp scr
(1864) 314grt 278nrt 146.0 x 19.2 x -- 2cy 60hp scr
built 1862 [Blackhouse] Middlesborough
1862 (28 Nov) Charles John Purdue, Dublin (reg London ON 45079*)
1863 (2 Jul) Isaac Rick, Nassau NP (reg Nassau NP*)
1866 captured by US Navy - condemned and sold as prize by US Government
1864 (4 Jun) Janus Y Phelan, Halifax NS as COMMERCE (reg Halifax NS ON 48119 [in error]*)
1879 (28 Apr) sold foreign (USA)

Lytle s List (US steamers)

Commerce 309 ON1851 Whitby, England
reg Boston, Mass.
spld foreigners 1864
Formerly British Pet.
Captured as blockade runner, 2/15/64; documented, 5/7/64

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