For other uses, see California (disambiguation).
The iron ship California (663 ton) is the most famous of four Dutch clippers launched in 1853. She was built by Fop Smit and mastered by F.C. Jaski for the company L. Bienfait & sn. On the maiden trip Jaski sailed her in 86 days from Duins to Port Adelaide, delivering a hundred satisfied English immigrants.
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| British-built clippers | Ariel · Blackadder · Challenger · City of Adelaide · Cutty Sark · Hallowe'en · Lammermuir (1856) · Lammermuir (1864) · Leander · Lothair · Norman Court · Sir Lancelot · Taeping · Tayleur · Thermopylae · Taitsing |
| American-built clippers | Champion of the Seas · Flying Cloud · Great Republic · James Baines · Lightning · Sea Witch · Sovereign of the Seas · Stag Hound · Ticonderoga |
| Dutch-built clippers | California · Kosmopoliet · Stad Amsterdam |
| British designers and builders | Hercules Linton · William Lithgow · John Scott Russell · Scott & Linton |
| American designers and builders | Donald McKay · Nathaniel Palmer · William Henry Webb |
