Lammermuir (1864 clipper)
The second ship to bear the name "Lammermuir" was an extreme composite
clipper ship built in 1864 byW. Pile & Co ofWest Hartlepool forJohn "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son,London . The first "Lammermuir" had been the favorite ship of John Willis and it was wrecked in theGaspar Strait the year before, in 1863.She measured 200'4"×35'5"×20'9" and tonnage was 1054 NRT.
She was designed for the
China tea trade. In 1866 she was almost wrecked in theEast China Sea and thePacific Ocean by 2typhoons . She was under the command of Captain M. Bell and carried the famousLammermuir Party of 18 missionaries and 4 children of theChina Inland Mission outbound toChina , arriving inShanghai on SundaySeptember 30 1866 .Hudson Taylor recalled the most perilous time in the voyage: cquote|“The appearance of things was now truly terrific. Rolling fearfully, themasts andyards hanging down were tearing our onlysail ... and battering like a ram against themain yard . The deck fromforecastle to poop was one scarcely broken sea. The roar of the water, the clanging of chains, the beating of the dangling masts and yards, the sharp smack of the torn sails made it almost impossible to hear any orders that might be given.”In 1873 the "Lammermuir" left London, bound for Adelaide. Unfortunately, they left port without the all-important tool chest for the ship's carpenter. John Willis himself rushed to the docks to see to it that the "Orient" could take the chest along and deliver it to the ship. The captain of the "Orient" bet Willis that he would overtake the "Lammermuir" before it crossed the Equator to transfer the chest at sea, which he did [Lubbock (2005), 151] .
The clipper's last voyage was soon after this, from
Adelaide toLondon onNovember 10 ,1876 , but it never arrived and was presumed to have been lost at sea.References
* "Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Four:: Survivors’ Pact"; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1983
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* "Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission" Chapter 6: Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor. Morgan and Scott 1918Notes
External links
*http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/ships/Clippers/Lammermuir(1864).html
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