45-ton

Updated: May 9, 2025

Captain Cleveland's voyages from Havre to the Cape of Good Hope, in a 45-ton cutter; from Calcutta to the Isle of France, in a 25-ton sloop; and Captain Coggeshall's voyage around Cape Horn in an unseaworthy pilot-boat are typical exploits of Yankee seamanship.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - American Merchant Ships and Sailors