Ambassador (clipper)

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Anatol
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Ambassador (clipper)

Post by Anatol » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:10 am

The STAMP 600FG depicts copy of the painting Derek Gardner: «Setting Topgallants:the China Clipper Ambassador,1870.»
'Ambassador' was a British Tea Clipper. She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was Lund's first tea clipper. Her fastest crossing between China and England was 108 days, in 1872. Though considered a fast ship, Ambassador was said to be "very cranky and overmasted" (Lubbock, The China Clippers, page 302). Her first passage to the UK from Foochow came during the Tea Race of 1870 under Captain Duggan and took 115 days, a mediocre performance; that same year the fastest tea passage, also from Foochow, was made by the clipper Lahloo in just 98 days. Ambassador is one of the last four surviving composite ships. Her beached skeleton, in Estancia San Gregorio, Chile, was declared a historical monument in 1973.
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Re: Ambassador (clipper)

Post by Ioanglancu » Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:49 am

Is this one is rare or antique .I am searching this on internet but not find any thing .Any more updates can help me.


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Re: Ambassador (clipper)

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:59 am

Built as a three mast composite clipper by William Walker at the Lavender Dry-dock, Rotherhithe on the River Thames for W. Lund & Sons, London.
Launched as the AMBASSADOR.
Tonnage 714 tons burthen, dim. 53.54 x 9.54 x 5.82m.
Full rigged when built.
Carried a figurehead of an eighteen century diplomat.
1869 Completed.

She was one of the last composite clippers built on the River Thames.
Her first voyage with tea was in the season 1870 – 1871 when she left Foochow under command of Captain P. Duggan on 25 July and arrived off Deal 15 November after a passage of 115 days.
In 1871/72 she made her fastest crossing with tea between Foochow and London in 108 days.
1874 Was she reduced to a barque rig.
1877 On a passage from New York to Melbourne under command of Captain C. Prehn and a crew of twenty, and running before a westerly gale force 10 in the South Atlantic, her deck was swept by a enormous sea, carrying overboard her master, four crew her steering wheel and the boats.
Altogether she made 6 tea voyages; the latest was when she sailed from Manila on 23 October 1878 under command of Captain. R.H. Bidwall and arrived London on 29 February 1879 after a passage of 129 days.
1888 Was she sold to George Milne in Aberdeen (Inver Line).
1889 Sold to G. Shaddick, Swansea.
1891 Sold to Burgess & Co., London.
1894 Sold to Aktieselskabet Kristiansand, then sold to Ole G. Olsen, Kristiansand used in the trade between Atlantic ports to the Pacific around Cape Horn.
On a voyage from Jacksonville, Florida to Honolulu, Hawaii during the passage she was badly damaged by stormy weather and leaking the AMBASSADOR made a call at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands for repairs.
December 1895 condemned there and offered for sale.
10 January 1896 sold to Frank Townsend for £850, who moved her to Pointe Arenas, Chile where she was put again on the sale list.
Bought by merchants and ship-owners Jose Menendez and Mauricio Braun for £1,250 to use her as a hulk for the storage of wool and other products.
June 1879 Braun sold his shares in the AMBASSADOR to Rodolfo Stubenrauch who transferred his shares to the other shareholder Jose Menendez on 07 January 1899.
In this roll was she used for an other forty years until she was discarded by Sociedad Ganadera y Comercial Menendez the successor of Jose Menendez.
She was not scrapped but moved to a beach at San Gregorio where she still is today her iron frames are mostly intact but very rusty but almost all her wooden planking has gone. Her bow in the water, without bowsprit and the bow destroyed by a fire, remnants of the mast are hanging over the site.
She is put on the National Historic Landmarks List of Chile in 1973.

Source: The Tea Clippers by David R MacGregor. http://www.histarmar.com.ar/InfHistoric ... ssador.htm

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