Grinnell, Minturn & Co

Grinnell, Minturn & Co. was one of the leading transatlantic shipping companies in the middle 19th century. It is probably best known today as being the owner and operator of the Flying Cloud, arguably the greatest of the clipper ships.

The company was engaged in the lucrative opium trade in the early 19th century. Afterward, it entered the transatlantic trade in human cargo during one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes of that century, an Gorta Mór, after which it profited in the transportation trade of the California gold rush.

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