SALAMIS
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:43 pm
Built as an iron clipper by Walter Hood & Co. Aberdeen for the Aberdeen White Star Line (George Thompson & Co., Aberdeen, Scotland.
May 1875 launched as the SALAMIS.
Tonnage 1130 gross, 1079 ton net, dim. 221.6 x 36 x 21,7ft.
Not fitted out to carry passengers.
Ship rigged.
She was built after the same lines of her predecessor the THERMOPYLAE, she was only a little bit larger.
The intention was to use her outward to Australia and then in the tea trade from China but when she was ready most of the tea trade was taken over by steamers and the SALAMIS was placed only in the trade between the U.K and Australia. General cargo out, wool home.
06 July 1875 she left London under command of Capt, Phillips bound for Australia.
Making only one tea voyage after her second voyage to Australia when she sailed from Melbourne to China and with a cargo of tea sailed home from Hong Kong in 110 days.
As a wool clipper she set a wonderful record when she made 13 voyages home from pilot to pilot in an average passage of 75 days, and outward in 77 days.
1894 Captain R.B.B.McKilliam took over command.
She was used mostly in the trade to Melbourne till she was sold.
1898 Sold to L. Gunderson, Norway and used in the guano trade, rerigged as a barque.
20 May 1905 wrecked on Malden Island (Kiribati) while most probably gathering guano.
Paraguay 1979 7g sg?, scott 1905e.
Source: The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock.
http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp ... ndex=99415
May 1875 launched as the SALAMIS.
Tonnage 1130 gross, 1079 ton net, dim. 221.6 x 36 x 21,7ft.
Not fitted out to carry passengers.
Ship rigged.
She was built after the same lines of her predecessor the THERMOPYLAE, she was only a little bit larger.
The intention was to use her outward to Australia and then in the tea trade from China but when she was ready most of the tea trade was taken over by steamers and the SALAMIS was placed only in the trade between the U.K and Australia. General cargo out, wool home.
06 July 1875 she left London under command of Capt, Phillips bound for Australia.
Making only one tea voyage after her second voyage to Australia when she sailed from Melbourne to China and with a cargo of tea sailed home from Hong Kong in 110 days.
As a wool clipper she set a wonderful record when she made 13 voyages home from pilot to pilot in an average passage of 75 days, and outward in 77 days.
1894 Captain R.B.B.McKilliam took over command.
She was used mostly in the trade to Melbourne till she was sold.
1898 Sold to L. Gunderson, Norway and used in the guano trade, rerigged as a barque.
20 May 1905 wrecked on Malden Island (Kiribati) while most probably gathering guano.
Paraguay 1979 7g sg?, scott 1905e.
Source: The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock.
http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp ... ndex=99415