California (663 tons) is the most famous of four Dutch clippers launched in 1853. An iron-hulled clipper, she was built by Fop Smit and mastered by F.C. Jaski for the company L. Bienfait & sn. On the maiden voyage Jaski sailed her in 86 days from The Downs to Port Adelaide, delivering a hundred English immigrants.
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Clipper ships, designers & builders
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| American-built early clippers (in year order) |
- Anglona (1840)
- Ariel (1842)
- Houqua (1844)
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| American-built extreme clippers, 1845–1850 (in year order) |
- Rainbow (1845)
- Sea Witch (1846)
- Memnon (1848)
- Ticonderoga (1849)
- Game Cock (1850)
- Race Horse (barque) (1850)
- Sea Serpent (1850)
- Stag Hound (1850)
- Surprise (1850)
- Witchcraft (1850)
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| American-built extreme clippers, 1851–1855 |
- Blue Jacket (1854)
- Challenger (1853)
- Champion of the Seas (1854)
- Comet (1851)
- Emanuela (1854)
- HMS Enchantress (1854)
- Flying Cloud (1851)
- Golden West (1852)
- Great Republic (barque) (1853)
- Hornet (1851)
- Ino (1851)
- James Baines (1854)
- John Gilpin (1852)
- Lightning (1853)
- Manuela (1854)
- N.B. Palmer (1851)
- Nightingale (1851)
- Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade (1854)
- Onward (1852)
- Red Jacket (1853)
- Sovereign of the Seas (1852)
- Sunny South (1854)
- Syren (1851)
- Sweepstakes (1853)
- Swordfish (1851)
- Westward Ho! (1852)
- White Swallow (1853)
- Witch of the Wave (1851)
- Young America (1853)
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| American-built medium clippers, 1851–1855 |
- Andrew Jackson (1855)
- Antelope of Boston (1851)
- Carrier Dove (1855)
- Carrier Pigeon (1852)
- Celestial Empire (1852)
- Flying Childers (1852)
- Ganges (1854)
- Golden Fleece (1855)
- Harriet Hoxie (1851)
- Herald of the Morning (1853)
- Kingfisher (1853)
- Lookout (1853)
- Mary Robinson (1854)
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| American-built clippers and medium clippers, 1856–1859 |
- King Philip (1856)
- Seminole (1865)
- Thatcher Magoun (1856)
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| American-built clippers and medium clippers, 1860s |
- Cremorne (1863)
- Shooting Star (1867)
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| British-built "Aberdeen" clippers, 1839–1858 |
- Challenger (1852)
- Lammermuir (1856)
- Lord of the Isles (1853)
- Mimosa (1853)
- Robin Hood (1856)
- Stornoway (1850)
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| British-built newer style clippers, 1859–1870 |
- Ariel (composite) (1865)
- Blackadder (iron) (1870)
- Cimba
- City of Adelaide (composite) (1864)
- Cutty Sark (composite) (1869)
- Fiery Cross (1860)
- Flying Spur (1860)
- Hallowe'en (iron) (1870)
- Lahloo (composite) (1867)
- Lammermuir (composite) (1864)
- Leander (composite) (1867)
- Lothair (composite) (1870)
- Norman Court (composite) (1869)
- Serica (1863)
- Sir Lancelot (composite) (1865)
- Taeping (composite) (1863)
- Taitsing (composite) (1865)
- Tayleur (iron) (1864)
- Thermopylae (composite) (1868)
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| Dutch-built clippers |
- California
- Kosmopoliet
- Stad Amsterdam
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| Canadian-built clippers |
- Marco Polo (1851)
- Stag (barque)
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| American designers and builders |
Curtis, James O.
- Curtis, Paul
- Curtis, Paul & Taylor
- Fernald & Pettigrew
- Griffiths, John Willis
- McKay, Donald
- Palmer, Nathaniel
- Pook, Samuel Hartt
- Webb, William H
- Westervelt, Jacob A.
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| British designers and builders |
- Linton, Hercules
- Lithgow, William
- Russell, John Scott
- Scott & Linton
- Pile, William
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| Surviving 19th Century clippers |
- City of Adelaide
- Cutty Sark
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