Pilgrim (brig) - The Pilgrim was a sailing brig (180 tons 86.5 feet (26.4 m) long) engaged in the California hide trade of the early 19th century. Although just one among many other ships engaged in the business the Pilgrim was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr. who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about its 1834 voyage between Boston and California.The Pilgrim was built in 1825 for Boston owners Bryant Sturgis & Co. and went down in a fire at sea in 1856. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
Mean Of Transportation