extracted from New York Daily Times, New York, N.Y. Jun 23, 1856 p. 3, Jul 7, 1856 p. 1, Jul 12, 1856 p. 4

Clipper-Ship Ocean Queen, Captain W.B. Smith, from London February 8th 1856 to New York, NY

Jun 23, 1856

The Missing Clipper Ships Driver and Ocean Queen

     The clipper ship Driver sailed from Liverpool on the 12th February last, with a crew of 22 men and 6 officers, together with 344 passengers, since which time she has not been heard of, and her owners give her up as lost. The Driver was a fine clipper, two years old, of 1,594 tons. She had on board a Liverpool cargo of dry goods and salt, and was fully insured. Daniel Ogden was the owner of the vessel, and Tapscott & Co., the parties to whom the cargo and passengers were consigned.
     The clipper Ocean Queen sailed on the 15th February [sic], from London, and was heard of at Portsmouth on the 17th [sic] of the same month, since which time all trace of her has been lost.
     It is supposed that both vessels encountered the ice, which was then present in the Atlantic in such large bodies, and were foundered or broken in pieces during the violent storms so prevalent during all of last Winter.
     The Ocean Queen was about six years old, and of 1,200 tons burden. She was owned by Griswold, Morgan & Co., and partially insured.
     The following is a list of the officers of the Driver. The crew was shipped in Liverpool, and the owners have not as yet received their names.

Jul 7, 1856

Arrival of the Baltic

     The United States Mail steamer Baltic, from Liverpool, about 1 o'clock pm Wednesday, the 25th June, arrived at her dock yesterday morning about 11 o'clock.
     The British and North American Mail steamer Africa, Captain Shannon, arrived off Liverpool on the evening of Sunday the 22nd June and came up the river about midnight. . . . . . .
     The probable loss of the American ship Ocean Queen, Captain Smith, of the London and New-York Line, with 110 lives, has been reported at Lloyds. This ship left the London docks on February 8th, with a full miscellaneous cargo and 85 steerage passengers. On February 15th she was spoken off the Isle of Wight, all well, since which nothing has been heard of her, and there is reason to fear she was lost in the ice in which the steamer Pacific perished. The ship G.B. Lamar, which left the Thames the same time as the Ocean Queen, was in great jeopardy from ice, on her voyage out.
     The ship Moro Castle, of Windsor, N.S., timber laden, was abandoned at sea, and has been towed into Crookshaven, water-logged and with masts gone.
     The ship Marco Polo had arrived at Liverpool from Melbourne, with £316,000 in gold.
     The American ship Unicorn, from Liverpool to Boston, was abandoned at sea on the 7th of June, lat. 39° N. long. 51° W. The crew were rescued by the Jane E. Walsh from Havana, and taken into Falmouth on the 24th June. . . . . . .

Jul 12, 1856

List of Passengers of the Ocean Queen

     There is now no doubt but that the clipper ship Ocean Queen, Captain W. B. Smith, of the London and New-York Line, has been lost, and 123 persons have perished. She sailed from London on the 8th of February last with a miscellaneous cargo, 90 passengers and crew of 33 persons. On the 15th of February she was spoken off the Isle of Wight, and, since that time, nothing has been heard of her. The following is a list of the name of the passengers and crew.

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