| hide_header =title |country=United States |flag= |name=
Red Rover |namesake= | owner = | ordered = | builder = Fernald & Pettigrew,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire | original_cost = |laid_down = | launched = 1852 | acquired = | homeport = | commissioned = | decommissioned = |in_service = |out_of_service= | renamed = Sold to
James Baines & Co., Liverpool, for $25.000 in 1861, renamed
Young Australia | struck = | reinstated = | honours = | captured = |fate = Wrecked on
Moreton Island, May 1872 | notes = }} | hide_header = | header_caption = | class =
Clipper | tons_burthen = |length= | beam = | draught = | draft = | hold_depth = | propulsion = | sail_plan = | complement = | armament = | notes = }} }} A second clipper named
Red Rover, active in the California trade, was built by Fernald & Pettigrew in 1852. Between 22 January – 2 May 1854, the ship sailed from New York to San Francisco in 120 (122) days. The ''Seaman's Bride
and Winged Racer'' which left New York one respectively two days after the Red Rover arrived at San Francisco on 23 May.
Red Rover was damaged in the 26–27 December 1853 fire which destroyed the clipper
Great Republic. Later, the ship served in the guano trade, sailing "from
Baker's Island with a cargo of
guano to
Hampton Roads in 99 days," between 28 August – 5 December 1860. == Citations ==