thumb|Brig Pilgrim off Santa Barbara in 1996

Pilgrim was an early 19th century American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about a 1834–1835 voyage between Massachusetts and California to trade for hides. Pilgrim caught fire and sank at sea in 1856.

Construction and trading

Pilgrim was a brig-rigged sailing vessel built in 1825 by Sprague & James at Medford, Massachusetts for Joshua Blake, Francis Stanton and George Hallett, and later sold to Bryant & Sturgis of Boston. She measured 180.5 tons burthen, had a length of and a beam of .

Pilgrim sank off the North Carolina coast after a fire at sea in 1856. The ship began to heel starboard in its dock on March 29, and the decision was made to demolish it.

See also

  • Ship replica (including a list of ship replicas)
  • Two Years Before the Mast

References

  • model of 1825 Pilgrim