The Hamburg bark COPERNICUS was built at Pillau, East Prussia (now Baltjsk, in the Russian territory of Kaliningrad), by Heinrich Otto Becker, for the merchant Eduard Ganswindt; Bielbrief [certificate of registry] Königsberg 3 October 1850; sold the same day to the Hamburg merchant and shipowner Robert Miles Sloman. 163 Commerzlasten; other measurements not given.
Masters:
1851-1853 - C. J. O. Roluffs
1853-1856 - H. Meyer
1856-1857 - H. C. Johannes
1857-1859 - T. A. Dahl
Voyages:
1850 - from Pillau/London
1851-1852 - New York
1852/53 - New Orleans
1853-1856 - New York
1856/1857 - New Orleans
1857 - Quebec
1857/1858 - New Orleans
1858 - Quebec/Glasgow