Caption:infobox ship career

{{Infobox ship career | Hide header = |Ship country=US |Ship flag={{USN flag|1865}} |Ship name=''Nightingale'' | Ship owner = Davis & Co.; Sampson & Tappan’s Pioneer Line of Australian [[Packet (sea transport)|Packets]] | Ship ordered = Capt. A.F. Miller, Boston, MA | Ship builder = Samuel Hanscomb Jr., [[Eliot, Maine]]| Ship original cost = $43,500 | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 1851 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honors = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = | Ship status = | Ship notes = Tea trade from China to London and New York; passengers from Boston and New York to Australia }}