Class and type Tea Clipper Launched 1856 | Tonnage 952 NRT Builder W. Pile & Co. | |
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Fate Wrecked 31 December 1863 Notes designed by William Pile, Sunderland | ||
Lammermuir, named for the Lammermuir Hills, was an extreme clipper ship.
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Construction
Lammermuir measured 178'0" × 34'0" × 22'0", with tonnage 952 NRT. Built in 1856 by William Pile of Sunderland for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son, London, it was the favorite ship of its owner.
Loss of the ship
When she was wrecked on the Amherst Reef in the Macclesfield Channel, Gaspar Strait on 31 December 1863, Willis commissioned another ship by the same name, the Lammermuir of 1864.
The wreck of the original Lammermuir was still visible above the water line in August 1866 when the new Lammermuir sailed past en route to China.
References
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