List of people who sailed on clipper ships

Passengers

Travellers

• Charles Keeler -- American author, adventure, poet, naturalist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture. Traveled around Cape Horn on a clipper in 1893.
• Sara Delano Roosevelt -- Mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Voyage to China at age eleven with her mother and six brothers and sisters.
• Corliss P. Stone -- Elected Mayor of Seattle, 1872. Arrived on the West Coast via clipper ship.

Missionaries to China

• Otis Gibson and Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson. Sailed on a clipper for a mission to China a few months after their marriage.
• James Joseph Meadows -- One of the first missionaries of the China Inland Mission.
• Hudson Taylor -- Protestant missionary, founder of the China Inland Mission. Spent 51 years in China.

Crew members

• Adelbert Ames -- Mate on a clipper, seaman on his father’s ship. Became a Union general in the Civil War, Reconstruction era politician, and Spanish-American War general.
• Hobart Bosworth -- Cabin boy. Became a famous actor.
• Michael Healy -- Cabin boy on a clipper. Became the first African-American to command a ship of the United States government.
• Edmund Rice (general) -- Apprentice to a clipper captain. Became a Brigadier General.

Captains

• Garibaldi -- Italian national hero. Captained a Peruvian clipper.
• Joseph Warren Holmes -- American sea captain who sailed around Cape Horn 84 times.
• Nathaniel Palmer -- American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
• Robert Waterman (sea captain) -- Clipper captain famous for making record-breaking times and for being rough on his crews.