VESSELS TOUCHING AT SAN DIEGO FROM 1769-1835

The following ships are ones which are known to have visited the coast, from information in ships' logs, in ship registers, or Spanish and Mexican customs' reports. Many other "phantom" ships plied the coast in illegal trading and left no records of their operations.

1769-1799

San Antonio (El Principe), and San Carlos, packetboats; Princesa, Favorita, Aranzazú, Concepción, frigates; Activa, schooner, Spanish Government ships, San Blas. Discovery and Mercedes<.i>, sloops, Great Britain.

1800

Betsy, American brig, Boston.

1801

Enterprise, American ship, New York.

1803

Lelia Byrd, American brig, Hamburg, Germany; Alexander and O'Cain, American ships, Boston; Hazard, American ship, Providence, R.I.

1804

Hazard, American ship, Providence, R. I.

1805

Lelia Byrd, American brig, Hamburg, Germany.

1806

Eclipse, American ship, Boston; Peacock, American brig, Boston.

1807

Activa, Spanish brig, San Blas; Princesa, Spanish frigate, San Blas; Peacook, American brig, Boston.

1809

Mercury, American ship, Boston.

1815

Forester, American brig, New York.

1817

Traveller, American schooner, Canton.

1818

Clarion, American brig, Boston.

1820

Discovery, British whaler.

1821

Eagle, American schooner, Boston.

1822

Sachem, American ship, Boston.

1823

John Begg, English brig, Liverpool; Sachem, American ship, Boston; San Carlos, Imperial Mexican man-of-war, Mexico; Thomas Nowland, English ship.

1824

Arab, American brig; Mentor, American ship, Boston; Washington, American schooner, Boston.

1825

Young Tartar, British coastal schooner; Baikal, Russian brig, Ft. Ross.

1826

Baikal, Russian brig, Ft. Ross; Harbinger, American brig, Honolulu; Owhyhee, American brig, Boston; Rover, California schooner, Monterey; Waverly, Hawaiian brig, Honolulu.

1827

Okhotsk and Baikal, Russian brigs, Ft. Ross; Harbinger, American brig, Honolulu; Waverly, Hawaiian brig, Honolulu; Courier, American ship; Le Heros, French ship, Le Havre.

1828

Franklin, American ship, Boston; Courier, American ship; Clio and Andes, American brigs; Okhotsk and Baikal, Russian brigs, Ft. Ross; Waverly and Karimoku, Hawaiian brigs, Honolulu.

1829

Brookline, American ship, Boston; Washington, American schooner, Boston; Okhotsk and Baikal, Russian brigs, Ft. Ross; Vulture, English brig, Callao.

1830

Leonor, Mexican ship, Acapulco; Baikal, Russian brig, Ft. Ross.

1831

Convoy, American brig, Honolulu; Louisa, American bark, Honolulu.

1832

Pocahontas, American ship.

1833

Volunteer, American bark, Honolulu; Harriet Blanchard, American schooner, Honolulu.

1834

Don Quixote, American bark, Honolulu; Natalia, Mexican ship, Acapulco.

1835

Pilgrim, Alert, Lagoda and California, American ships, Boston; Ayacucho, English brig, Callao; Loriot, American schooner, Honolulu; La Rosa, Italian ship, Sardinia; Facio, Mexican brig, Guaymas; Catalina, American brig under Mexican flag, La Paz.