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The Colonial Clippers

Part 4 — APPENDIX C.—Iron Wool Clippers.

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Date Built Name of Ship Best known Commander Ton. L’th Bre’th Depth Builders Owners

1852 Darling Downs Wakeham 1634 258.6 40 29.9 Built on the Thames Taylor, Bethell & Roberts

1860 City of Agra T. Young 1074 213.6 34.7 20.6 Pile, W. Hartlepool Blyth & Co.

1861 Sam Mendel Steele 1034 215.6 35 20.6 „ Coupland Bros.

1864 Dharwar T. Frebody 1300 226.2 37.2 23.3 Harland & Wolf J. Willis

1866 Marpesia T. Storey 1443 234.2 38.4 23.9 Reid, Glasgow J. Heap & Sons

„ Antiope Black 1443 242.3 38.4 23.7 „ „

1868 Theophane Follett 1525 248.4 38.9 23.7 „ „

Ivanhoe Burgess 1383 235.2 37.4 23.7 „ Williamson, Milligan

Loch Rannoch Ross 1185 217.8 35.5 21 Thomson, Glasgow Glasgow Shipping Co.

Ben Nevis Mackie 1061 218 34.6 21 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow Watson Bros.

1869 Patriarch Pile 1339 222.1 38.1 22.3 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thompson & Co.

Loch Awe Weir 1053 217.7 34.5 21 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow J. & R. Wilson

Hoghton Tower Trimble 1598 247 40.1 23.7 Clover, Birkenhead Ismay, Imrie

Thomas Stephens Richards 1507 263 38.2 23.1 Potter, Liverpool T. Stephens & Sons

Loch Katrine J. Burton 1200 226 35.8 21.5 Lowrie, Glasgow Glasgow Shipping Co.

Loch Ness Foreshaw 1190 225.5 35.6 21.6 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow „

Loch Tay Bennett 1191 225.4 35.5 21.6 „ „

1870 Loch Lomond J. Strachan 1200 226.3 35.8 21.5 Lowrie, Glasgow „

Loch Leven Branscombe 1200 226.3 35.8 21.5 „ „

1871 Miltiades Perrett 1452 240.5 39.3 23.3 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thompson Co.

1872 Mermerus Fife 1671 264.2 39.8 23.7 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow Carmichael

Collingwood Forbes 1011 211.1 34.8 21 Hood, Aberdeen Devitt & Moore

1873 Hesperus Legoe 1777 262.2 39.7 23.5 Steele, Glasgow Anderson, Anderson

Ben Cruachan W. Martin 1468 255.5 37 21.7 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow Watson Bros.

Ben Voirlich W. Ovenstone 1474 255.6 37.1 21.8 „ „

Samuel Plimsoll R. Boaden 1444 241.3 39 23.1 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thompson & Co.

Loch Maree A. Scott 1581 255.8 38.6 22.9 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow Glasgow Shipping Co.

Loch Ard G. Gibbs 1624 262.7 38.3 23 Connell, Glasgow „

Gladstone J. Jackson 1159 248.2 34.2 20.9 McMillan, Dumbarton F. H. Dangar

1874 Rodney A. Loutitt 1447 235.6 38.4 22.6 Pile, Sunderland Devitt & Moore

Romanoff W. Shepherd 1226 222.1 36.3 22.2 Hood, Aberdeen A. Nicol

Cairnbulg Birnie 1567 261.3 39 23 Duthie, Aberdeen Wm. Duthie, Jun.

Thessalus E. C. Bennett 1782 269 41.1 23.6 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow Carmichael

Carpathian Pennecuik 1444 240.1 36.6 22.6 Humphreys, Hull McDiarmid, Greenshields

Old Kensington Underwood 1777 262 42.1 23.8 Potter, Liverpool Smith, Bilbrough & Co.

1875 Loch Garry Horne 1493 250.5 38.4 22.6 Thomson, Glasgow Glasgow Shipping Co.

Loch Vennachar Ozanne 1485 250.1 38.3 22.4 „ „

Salamis Phillip, Sen. 1079 221.6 36 21.7 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thompson & Co.

Trafalgar Muir 1429 242 38.4 22 E. I. Scott, Greenock D. Rose & Co.

Woollahra Barneson 942 202.4 33.6 20.4 Osburne, Sunderland Cowlislaw Bros.

Cassiope Withers 1559 253 40 23.6 Whitehaven S. Co. J. Heap & Sons

Parthenope Goody 1563 250.6 39.9 23.6 Evans, Liverpool „

1876 Sir Walter Raleigh Purvis 1492 243.4 38.9 21.9 Thomson, Glasgow D. Rose & Co.

Anglo-Norman Davidson 822 192.4 32.2 18.9 Russell, Glasgow Frost, Cook & Co.

Loch Fyne Martin 1213 228.5 36 21.3 Thomson, Glasgow General Shipping Co.(Aitken, Lilburn & Co.)

Loch Long McCallum 1203 228.5 35.8 21.3 „ „

Aristides Kemball 1661 260 39.5 24.5 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thompson & Co.

Smyrna Spalding 1305 232.3 38.5 22.2 „ „

Harbinger Bolt 1506 253.5 37.6 22.4 Steele, Greenock Anderson, Anderson

Argonaut Hunter 1488 254.4 38.6 23.2 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow Carmichael

1877 Brilliant Davidson 1613 254.8 39.7 24.2 Duthie, Aberdeen J. Duthie, Sons & Co.

Pericles Largie 1598 259.6 39.4 23.6 Hood, Aberdeen Thompson & Co.

Loch Ryan Black 1207 228.5 35.8 21.3 Thomson, Glasgow General Shipping Co.

Loch Etive Stuart 1235 226.5 35.9 21.6 Inglis, Glasgow „

Loch Sloy Horne 1225 225.3 35.6 21.2 Henderson, Glasgow „

Loch Shiel Erskine 1218 225.3 35.6 21.1 „ „

Nebo Coleman 1383 246.9 37.1 21.1 Dobie, Glasgow J. Smith

1878 Cimba J. W. Holmes 1174 223 34.6 21.7 Hood, Aberdeen A. Nicol & Co.

Loch Sunart G. Weir 1231 223.4 34.7 21.7 Inglis, Glasgow Glasgow Shipping Co.

1879 Sophocles Smith 1138 223.4 34.7 21.7 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thomson & Sons

1881 Illawarra Corvasso 1887 269.1 40.6 24 Dobie, Glasgow Devitt & Moore

Orontes Bain 1383 234.8 36.1 22.5 Hood, Aberdeen G. Thompson & Co.

Loch Moidart 2000 287.4 42.6 24 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow General Shipping Co. (Aitken, Lilburn & Co.)

Loch Torridon R. Pattman 2000 287.4 42.6 24 „ General Shipping Co.

1882 Port Jackson A. S. Cutler 2132 286.2 41.1 25.2 Hall, Aberdeen Devitt & Moore

1884 Derwent Andrew 1890 275 40.2 23.7 McMillan, Dumbarton „

1885 Torridon Shepherd 1564 246 38.1 22 Hall, Aberdeen A. Nicol & Co.

Yallaroi J. Brown 1565 245.8 38.1 22 „ „

Loch Carron S. Clarke 2075 287.7 42.5 24.1 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow General Shipping Co.

Loch Broom W. Martin 2075 287.7 42.5 24.1 „ „

Strathdon J. Paterson 2093 282.8 40.5 23.6 Harland & Wolf G. Thompson &Co.

1891 Mount Stewart Green 1903 271.6 40.1 23.4 Barclay, Curle, Gl’gow D. Rose & Co.

Cromdale Andrew 1903 271.6 40.1 23.4 „ „

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