 The shipWindhover | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Windhover |
| Owner | Findlay & Co |
| Builder | Connell and Co., Glasgow, Scotland |
| Launched | January 1868 |
| Completed | 1868 |
| Maiden voyage | Glasgow to Liverpool, 1868 |
| Homeport | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Fate | Wrecked;Australia, 1889 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Clipper Ship |
| Tonnage | 847 NRT[1] |
| Length | 201.1ft[1] |
| Beam | 34.0ft[1] |
| Depth | 19.8 ft[1] |
| Sail plan |
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Windhover was a Britishtea clipper built in the closing years of construction of this sort of ship. She measured 847 tonsNRT. Like the majority of the tea clippers built in the second half of the 1860s, she was ofcomposite construction. She was built by Connell and Co, Glasgow, Scotland in 1868.[1]
TheWindhover's maiden voyage was from Glasgow, Scotland to Liverpool, Britain in 1868.
In 1870, theWindhover carried 1,064,645 lbs of tea fromFoo Chow, China toLondon in 99 days, the best achieved that year before the monsoon changed direction (but bettered only byLahloo andLeander with 98 days). The races of tea clippers from China had changed sinceThe Great Tea Race of 1866 - a monetary prize ("the premium") was no longer included in thebill of lading of a tea clipper and the winner was judged to be the ship with the fastest passage, rather than the first to dock in London.[1]
After the opening of theSuez Canal in 1870, clipper ships were replaced with faster steamships in the transport of tea and other cargo. Most were used in the Australian wool trade.[2] TheWindhover traveled regularly to China, sailing toShanghai, Foo-Chow,Yokohama andHong Kong. She was bought by Kerr & Co in 1881 and altered to a barque rig while working the Australian trade routes, hauling coal from western Australia to the eastern cities.[3]
August 1889, theWindhover wrecked off the coast ofAustralia on theBramble Cay Reef. She was carrying 1300 tons of coal bound forBatavia, Indonesia.[4]
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