MOUNT STEWART

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Built as a steel hulled, three masted full rigged ship under yard No 369 by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow for account of Donald Rose & Son, Aberdeen.
May 1891 launched under the name MOUNT STEWART, one sister the CROMDALE.
Tonnage 1.903 gross, dim. 271.6 x 40.1 x 23.4ft.

She were the last two ships special built for the wool trade from Australia. They were both very good cargo carriers with a short poop. With general cargo to Australia, first with wool back, later with grain.
Not fitted out for passengers, sometimes she carried a few down under.
She was running between London and Sydney, not famous for record voyages.
Captain C Green had command of her up until 1908.
1908 Command was taken over by Capt. M.C. McColm, and he stayed on board till she was sold for scrap in Nantes. Most of the time his wife was sailing with him. The sail maker stayed on board for 16 years and her cook for 11 year.
She must have been a lucky ship; all my sources mention the ship, but not any mishap.
In June/July 1921 she made a fast passage from Delagoa Bay to Sydney in 38 days.
Between 1922/23 laid up at Milford Haven for more as a year.

Her last voyage still under command of McColm was with salt from Gracie Beazley’s berth in Liverpool, for Sydney, making the passage in 125 days, then crossed the Pacific from Newcastle, NSW for Iquique with coal, after discharging loaded nitrate, and via Cape Horn sailed to Nantes, where she arrived in 1925.

When discharging was completed she was sold for scrap, and broken up in Nantes.
Captain McColm retired from the sea with his wife and two young sons, who had never lived in a house ashore, to a dairy farm in New South Wales.

Lubbock and some other sources give built as a full-rigged ship, while on the stamp she is depict as a barque, so most probably later re-rigged in a barque.

Tanzania 1999 370/

Source: The Colonial Clippers by Lubbock. http://www.ship-modelers-assn.org/fam9705.htm