Robert Steele, Greenock, for Anderson, Anderson
& Co.(Orient Line) . Abandoned after her wool cargo
caught fire from internal combustion on her homeward
passage on her maiden voyage in August 1875.
AURORA, 1857gt, an iron clipper built in 1874 by
Robert
Steele,
Greenock,
for Anderson,
Anderson
&
Co.(Orient Line) . Abandoned after her wool cargo
caught fire
from
internal combustion on her homeward
passage on her
maiden voyage
in August 1875.
Clipper Ship Aurora at sea.
T.G. Dutton
Coloured
lithograph: 1868-1874
Royal Museum
Greenwich, London (PY8594)
CONSTANCE, 578gt, a wood barque built in 1848
at Ayres Quay,
Durham, by
George
Marshall for
his shipping
company.
.
"The Constance 578
tons off
Kerguelens Land, 20th
Octr. 1849
on her passage
from Plymouth to Adelaide in 77 days."
T.G.Dutton
Day & Son
William Foster
Hand-coloured
lithograph:1851
National Library of
Australia (nla.pc-an9537971)
COONATTO, 633t, a composite (iron frame planked)
clipper built
by Bilbe
& Perry, London, in 1862 for
Anderson,
Anderson & Co.(Orient Line). On the Adelaide
run
until she was wrecked on Beachy Head
on a return
passage from
Adelaide in Feb. 1876. Her fastest
outward
passage to
Adelaide was
in 66 days.
"The Clipper Ship 'Coonatto" Messrs Anderson
Thompson
& Co owners & Messrs Thos Bilbe &
Co
builders"
T.G. Dutton, artist
Coloured
lithograph
Royal
Museums Greenwich, London (PY8564)
ETHIOPIAN, 839t, a wood
ckipper built by Walter Hood,
Aberdeen,
in 1864 for George Thompson (Aberdeen White
Star).
Built for the
Australian trade, she made her maiden
run to Melbourne
in 68 days. She was sold to Norwegian
owners in 1886.
She was abandoned at sea
in 1894. then
found and
towed into port and condemned.
"Aberdeen
Built Clipper Ship 'Ethiopian' 838 Tons Register"
T.G. Dutton
Coloured
lithograph
Royal
Museum Greenwich, London (PY0685)
GOOLWA, 717t, a composite
(iron framel planked) clipper
built by, in
1864 by Hall, Aberdeen, for
Anderson, Anderson
& Co.
(Orient Line). She was a hard
driven fast ship in the
Adelaide
trade. She diappeared from the register in 1880.
Clipper Ship 'Goolwa'
(1864).
T.G.Dutton, artist
William Foster
Lithograph: 1866
Royal Museums Greemwich, London (PY8566)
HARWOOD,
462t, a wood clipper built in
Montrose in 1857
for Young
& Co. She was
registered in
Glasgow.
Frum the Register
initially intended for
the China trade, she is
recorded as making a
first arrival in Auckland
in Nov. 1858, and
evidence from a diary o0f a
voyage to Lytteton in
1860. The Register has
her in the
Liverpool-South American trade
from 1865-1869.
She disappears from the
Register in
1870/71
"Clipper
Ship 'Harwood' (Dr, 1867)"
T.G.Dutton
Coloured
lithograph: circa 1860
Royal Museum
Greenwich, London (PY0645)
HESPERUS
(sister of AURORA), 1859gt, iron clipper
built by Robert
Steele, Glasgow in 1873 for
Anderson,
Anderson. The Orient
Line's first iron ship.. She was
in
the Adelaide
passenger trade until 1890 when she was
sold to Devitt
& Moore for
the Lord Brassey
training
scheme. She made some
good passages as a cadet ship,
e.g., in 1892 she
arrived in Melbourne from the Lizard
in71 days. She was
sold in 1899 to Russian owners for
use as a training ship
in the Black Sea.
"Clipper Ship
'Hesperus' ...Messrs Anderson Anderson & Co Owners...
& Robert Steele & Co...Builders, Greenock"
T.G. Dutton, artist
William Foster
Coloured lithograph: 16Feb. 1874
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY8588)
IDA ZIEGLER,
860t, a wood clipper built in
Bremerhaven in
1854 for T.H.A. Wattenbach
and F.W.Heilers
of London. From 1857 to 1862,
she made six
voyages London to
Calcutta, and
then made
seven voyages to Auckland with
emigrants under
charter to Shaw Savill.
She
was sold in
1867 while still under charter, and
was driven
ashore and wrecked at
Hawkes Bay,
New
Zealand in Feb. 1869. She is recorded as
having made
consistently good passages. .
Lithograph by and
after T.G. Dutton
From Frank C. Bowen's
"The
Golden Age of Sail"
JAMES
BAINES, 2275t (British measure), a softwood
clipper designed and
built
by Donald Mckay, Boston in
1854 for James
Baines' Black Ball Line of Liverpool at
the time of the
Australian Gold Rush. She made a maiden
voyage to
Melbourne
from Liverpool
in a record 63 days.
In1857, she was taken
up by the
Government to carry
troops to India
because of the Indian Mutiny. She
returned in
April 1858 with a cargo of
rice, jute, linseed
and cow hides from
Calcutta which caught fire
while
being
unloaded
at Liverpool resulting in the loss of the ship.
G.H. Andrews, artist, 1855
T.G. Dutton, engraver
Royal Museum Greenwich,
London
(PY8552)
KAISOW,
820gt, a composite (iron frame, teak
and elm planks)
clipper built by Robert Steele,
Greenock, in 1868
for Alexander Rodger of
Glasgow.
Intended for the China
tea trade, she
was fast and made good
passages. Her first voyage
was to Shanghai
in 1869. The steamers were
making inroads into the
tea trade but she secured
a
cargo. In
1872, she carried a cargo (probably sugar)
from Batavia.
In 1872 she took tea to New York.
In 1874, she sailed
first to
Melbourne and then to
China and
obtained a cargo in Bangkok. From
1877-1879, she
made three voyages
carrying timber
from Vancouver to
Shanghai. Her last tea cargo
was in 1884 from
Yokohama to San Francisco. She
was sold in 1885, and
transferred to the South
American trade.
In 1891, bound from Valparaiso
with a cargo
of manganese ore
she foundered in a
Force 10 gale when her
cargo shifted and
put her
on her beams
"Clipper
Ship 'Kaisow' outward bound
, January 1869"
T.G. Dutton,
artist
William Foster
Coloured lithograph:
circa 1868-1874
Royal Museum
Greenwich,
London (PY8580)
LAHLOO, 799t,
a composite (iron frame, planking)
built in 1867
by Robert Steele, Greenock, for
Alexander
Rodger (owner
of TAEPING and later KAISOW). In the
1868-69 tea
season she was among the leaders with a
cargo from
Foochow but behindARIEL, SIR
LANCELOT
and TAEPING.
In the 1869-70 season, she was again
among the
leaders from Foochow with a passage time of
101 days; and
again, if latein the
1870-1871 season, she
made an
impressive 98 day paasage from Foochow. In
the next season
in July 1872, she was wrecked on
Sandlewood
Island (one of the Sunda
islands)
homeward
bound with a
cargo of tea from Shanghai.
Clipper Ship 'Lahloo', 799 Tons
T.G.
Dutton, artist and engraver
William
Foster, publisher
Coloured
lithograph:1868-1874
Royal
Museums Greenwich, London (PY8578)
LANCASHIRE WITCH,
1575t, a sot wood clipper
built in
1854 by Lomas & Sewell, Quebec.
In 1863,
owned by
Firnie & Co. , Liverpool, she was chartered
by
Shaw, Savill Co. to carry
emigrants to New Zealand.
She made
three voyages to New Zealand.
In1863,
in
a passage
to Lyttelton, she departed London with 420
emigrants. Scarlet fever
broke out and 3 adults and
23
children died. On arrival at
Lytteltom, the ship was
placed in
quarantine. When allowed ashore, the
emigrants
found that no
prope arrangements had been
made for
their reception. The next voyage
in 1865 was
to Auckland
where she arrived with 400 passengers - the
largest
number that had
arrived there in
one vessel. In
1867, she
made a second voyage to Lyttelton
with 43
saloon
and 100
steerage passengers. In 1887, the
vessel
became a hulk in Callao
Clipper
Ship 'Lancashire Witch',1575 Tons
T.G. Dutton,
artist and engraver
William Foster,
publisher
Coloured
lithograph: 1863
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY8537)
MIRAGE, 950t, a wood clipper built byJohn
Pile,
West
Hartlepool, in 1855 for Ewing, Liverpool.
In the China
trade and she sailed with tea cargoes
in
nine of the ten tea seasons from
1855 to 1865 -
on six
occasions from Shanghai/Whampoa, twice
from Foochow,
and
once from Hong Kong. She
was sold in
Hong Kong in 1868. She met
her end
in 1871 on
a passage from Bangkok to Hong Kong.
One account is
that she
was wrecked on Tyho
or
Tyoa Island.
Another acount, which appeared in
the Hong
Kong press, is
that the rice cargo choked
the pumps in a
heavy gale and the vessel was
abandoned
near Tyho Island.
The Clipper
Ship 'Mirage', 965 Tons
T.G. Dutton,
artist and engraver
Day & Son ,
engravers
William Foster,
Publisher
Coloured
lithograph: 1853-1857
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London
(PY0637)
ORIENT, 1,033t, a wood clipper built in 1853 by
Bilbe &
Perry,
Rotherhithe, for Anderson,
Anderson.
Intended for
the Australian Gold Rush trade she was
taken by the
Government soon after completion to
carry troops to
the Crimea. She was
involed in the
Crimean
campaign as a transport and later as a
hospital ship
until 1856. She was then
put in the
Adelaide trade
the first of the Anderon, Anderson
ships
in in this trade.
From 1856 to 1877 she made 21
voyages from
London and
Plymouth to Adelaide and
was a popular
passenger clipper. In 1861, her cargo
caugrt fire
and her passengers were
transferred to a
Dutch ship
which stood by but the fire was brought
under control..She
went to Ascension Island where
her cargo was
taken out and examined. As the
pioneer
ship, her name
was adopted for the Line - the Orient
Line.
She was sold in 1879 and
became
a coal huk at
Gibraltar.
.
Clipper Ship 'Orient'(1853) 1032 Tons
T.G. Dutton
Lithograph: 1851-1853 (Many similarities with
T.G. Dutton's lithograph of 'Timaru" at least
twenty years later below)
Royal Museums Greenwich, London
(PY8541)
SCHOMBERG, 2,264t, the wood clipper
buili
in 1855 by
Alexander Hall of Aberdeen
for
James Baines Black
Ball Line. It was the
largest wood
clipper
built in Great Britain and
an attempt to
match the large American and
Canadian
clippers purchsed by Liverpool ship
owners to
carrypassengers
to the Gold Rush in
Australia.
On her maiden voyage to Melbourne
she ran
aground on a reef close to the Victorian coast..
Passengers were
taken to Melbourne by a passing
steamer. The
vessel was a total
loss.
'Clipper Ship 'Schomberg'(1855)
G.H. Andrews, artist
T.G. Dutton, engraver
Lithograph: 1854-1861
Royal
Museums Greenwich, London (PY8552)
SHUN LEE,
674t, a composite (iron frame, planked) clipper
built in1866 by
W. Walker, Rotherhithe,
for his own use.
Her maiden voyage was
to Australia. In the
following year
she went to
China. In 1871, she was sold to a London firm
and put in the New
Zealand trade.
She is recorded as arriving
in Port Chalmers in
Dec. 1871 with 23
passengers. In1874
she was
sold to M.Ion & Co. and subsequently transferred
to J.Graham and
then back to M.Ion
& Co. In 1880 she was
reduced to a Barque
rig, and in 1885 sold to J.Jenkins.
In
| 1891, she was destroyed by
an internal combustion fire at
Rio
de Janeiro
'The 'Shun Lee' 700
Tons Register A1 at
Lloyds 14 years.
Built by Wm Walker
Esq, Lavender Dock, Rotherhithe,
London, July
1866"
T.G. Dutton,
artist
Coloured
lithograph
Royal
Museum Greenwich, London (PY8575)
SILVER EAGLE,
903gt, a wood clipper built in 1861 by
the Portland
Shipbuilding Company, Troon,
for Joseph
Somes (later
owner of LEANDER). She sailed initially
between London
and New Zealand. Her years as a tea
clipper were
from 1863
to 1869. She
was newer among
the 'cracks' but
in five of seven tea seasons
she
secured cargoes
of tea- 3 from Shanghai. 1 from Hankow
and her last
in1869
from Foochow. In the
early seventies
voyages to
Australia were interposed by one to Japan.
In 1877, her rig
was reduced to a barque. In
1884, she
was sold to
Norwegian owners and
renamed AQUILA.
In April
1895., she was abandoned at sea.
"Silver Eagle' (1861)
clipper ship,
1046 Tons..."
T.G.Dutton,
artist
Coloured
lithograph:
Royal Museum
Greenwich,
London (PY0673)
SIR
LANCELOT (sister of ARIEL), 886t,
a composite
clipper (iron frame,
planked)
built in 1865
by Robert Steele, Greenock.
One of the top
flight of tea clippers. on her
second voyage in
1868 she loaded late in
Shanghai but
overhaulrd modt of the ealier
starters in th e
passage of the year -99 days.
In 1869, she
beat THERMOPYLAE to
London in a
record passage of 81 dsys. She
beat THERMOPYLAE
again in 1870. Her
subsequent
voyage were less impressive and
her glory days
were over. In 1876 she was
reduced to a
barque and was sold in 1886 to
Indian owners and put in the India Mauritius
trade. Sold agin
to Persian owners in 1895, she
disappesred
later that year ia voyage from
Muscat to
Calcutta and is believed to have
oundered in a
cyclone off Calcutta.
"'Sir Lancelot'
886 Tons Register
Richard Robinson
Commander"
T.G. Dutton,
artist and engraver
William Foster,
publisher
Coloured
lithograph: circa 1868-1874
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY8571)
SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN, 1,078gt, a composite
(iron frame,
planked) clipper
built in 1868 by
W. Pile,
Sunderland, for Devitt & Moore. As
a passenger
clipper she was mainly in
the South
Australian
trade but occasionaly went to Melbourne.
She was in this
trade for close to twenty years. She
was sold to a
Belfast firm in 1887 and was
sunk in a
collision in
1889.
.
"Clipper Ship
'South Australian'
(1863) at sea
near a coast.."
T.G. Dutton,
artist and engraver
Coloured
lithograph
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY8565)
SOUTHERN
CROSS, 347t, 3 masted barque built
in
1851 by John Watson Hobart, Tasmania, for
Charles Seal,
Hobart. The vessel is described in
the Lloyds
Register 1860 as in
the London
to
Hobart trade
Ownership of the vessel changed
at least
twice in the life of
the vessel. She was
wrecked by
coming ashore about two
miles west
of
Cape Douglas, South Australia, in May 1880
and became a
total loss.
"Barque
'Southern Cross', 347 tons :
George R.
McArthur Commander"
T.G.Dutton
Day & Son
William Foster
Coloured
lithograph: circa 1853
National
Library of Australia
(http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9579681)
TAEPING, 767
tons was built in 1863 by Robert Steele
at Greenock for
Rodger & Co. She was designed to be
faster than
FIERY CROSS which had been the leading
clipper with the
new season tea from China in 1861 and
1862. She
arrived too late in 1864 and suffered typhoon
damge in 1865
which prevented her from being among
the first ships
loadin new season tea. In 1866, she was
among the first
ships loading and in a tight race with
ARIEL and
SERICA. They left the Pagoda anchorage
at Foochow close
together and docked in the Thames
on the same tide
-99 days out. She shared the honours
with ARIEL
In 1967, TAEOING was home a week before
any other tea
clipper after a passage of 103 days. But
SIR LANCELOT
which came in later had made a passage
of 99
days. In 1868, TAEPING, AREEL and SIR
LANCELOT left
the Pagoda anchorage close together,
and was beaten
in a close finish by SPINDRIFT, ARIEK
and SIR
LANCELOT. In 1869, all recods were broken by
SIR LANCELOT's
passage of 89 days and THERMOPYLAE's
91 days.
In 1871, TAEPING was wrecked on Ladd's reef in
the South China
Sea while bound for New York from Amoy.
Steamers took
over the tea trade in 1875.
"Clipper Ship 'Taeping' 767 Tons D Mckinnon Commander
in the South China Sea in company with the 'Fiery Cross'
on
their homeward voyage from Foo-Chow-Foo to London,
June 1866."
T.G. Dutton,
artist
Colooured lithograph:
1866
Royal
Museum Greenwich, London (PY0682)
THE MURRAY - 903 tons built in 1861 by Alexander Hall
at Aberdeen for
James Thompson & Co. She was in the
Adelaide trade
with the Orient Line and was their last ship
built entirely
of wood. She was a fast ship and in 1863 made
a passage from
Plymouth to Adelaide in 73 days. In 1880
she was sold to
Norwegian owners and renamed FRIEA.
She was lost on
theastern side of outer Oslofiord with a
cargo of coal.
There were no survivors.
Clipper
Ship 'The Murray' (1861)
T.G. Dutton
Lithograph: 1863
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London
(PY8561)
TIMARU,
1,306t, an iron nclipper built in 1874 by
Scott, Greenock, for
Patrick
Henderson (Albion
Shipping Co.).
She was intebded for and spent
most of her life
in
the New Zealand passenger and
cargo trade. She made
good passages. In 1879. she
reached the Scillies
in 68 days from
New Zealand,
and had reached Port
Chalmers in her outward
passage in 78
days.
With the amalgamation of
Albion with Shaw
Savill in 1883, she
sailed under
the Shaw Savill &
Albion flag. Refrigeration
eqquipment was
installed in thvessel,
and in 1899
she was sold to
a South African cold storage company
for use as a freezer
hulk.
.
"TheAlbion Shipping
Company's Ships...'Timaru'.
Built for P. Henderson
& Cos Line of London and
New Zealand"
William Clark, artist
T.G. Dutton,
engraver
Coloured lithograph
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY8593)
TORY, 433t
(old
mesurement) 512t (new measuement),
a wood barque built in
1842 at Sunderland
for J&F Somes.
This vessel made three
voyages as a convict
transport
to
Australia. Two of these voyages were to Hobart in 1845
and 1848
each with 170 female
convicts who were landed
after passages of
104 and 98 days.
The third was to
Norfolk
Island in 1847 where 195 male convicts were landed.
A barque TORY
of the same
details was lost when she went
ashore near Port
Stephens, New South
Wales in 1853. Her
commander was Captain
Langford (as in the inscription of
the Dutton
lithograph). The vessel was
carrying a party of
labourers from
Britain to Port Stephens for
the Peel River
Mining Company.
No lives were lozt.
"Barque Tory.
G.E.
Langford,Commander...
Australian
Cordilleras Gold Mining
Company
Chartered Ship
leaving the
Downs with their
first
expedition to
Australia"
T.G. Dutton,
artist and engraver
Day &
Son, engravers
Coloured
lithograph:1843
Australian
National Library
(nla.pic-an9579666)
WEST
AUSTRALIAN - iron clipper -
599t 1859
Hartlepool. Intended for the
Indian trade,
she made a voyages to
Australia
in1861/62, and three from
London to New
Zealand in !863/64,
1664.65 and
1965/88. In 1866/67 she is
recirded as in
the Liverpool- South
American Trade
then for some yrars
from 1868/69 in
the Liverpool-India
trade. She
was still on the Register
in th1880s as
being in Liverpool
without any
destinations listed.
"Clipper Ship
'West Australian' 600
Tons Register"
T.G. Dutton,
artist and engraver
Day & Son,
printers
William Foster,
publisher
Coloured
lithograph: circa 1857-1860
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY0661)
YATALA -
1127 tons. A composite (metal ribs planked)
clipper built
by Thomas Bilbe of Rotherhithe , London, in
1865 for
Anderson Anderson's Orient Line's Adelaide
passenger
trade. Wrecked at Andreselles, Gris Nez,
north of
Boulogne, on a homeward passage from Adelaide
with a
cargo of wool in March 1872.
.
" Clipper Ship
'Yatala' Messrs
Anderson Thopson
& Co Owners
& Thos Bilbe & Co Builders"
T.G. Dutton
Coloured
lithograph
Royal Museums
Greenwich, London (PY8573)
http://collections.rmg.co.uk
http://www.nla.gov.au
(Halton
& Truscott Smith Ltd., London 1825)
of Shaw Savill & Co1858-82"
(Robert Hale Ltd, London 1986)
(Brown,
Son & Ferguson Ltd,., Glasgow, New Edition 1948)
(James
Brown & Son, Glasgow 1916)
" SAIL:
The Romance of the Clipper Ships", Vols. I.& II
(The
Blue Peter Publishing Company, London 1828 & 1929)