User:Redbeardatxmission/Enoch Train (downeaster)

Enoch Train was a downeaster built in 1854 for Isaac Rich & Company by Paul Curtis at his yard in East Boston

Construction
Enoch Train was framed of white oak, and had planking of hard pine. She was copper and iron fastened, with yellow metal sheathing.

Voyages
Enoch Train is best known for her voyage from Liverpool to Boston, in 1856, under Captain H. S. Rich, when she carried 534 emigrants from the British Isles bound for the Utah Territory. These people made up the majority of the first two handcart companies to travel from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake City.

Another noted voyage was when she sailed from New York to Batavia, arriving June 25, 1865 delivering kerosene for Standard Oil, under the flag of the Weld Company. Recorded in Americans in Sumatra by James W. Gould.