White Eagle
A iron extreme clipper ship built in 1855 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Kelvinhaugh, as Yard No. 7.
Dimensions: 203'3"×32'8"×20'9" and tonnage: ____ tons OM and 997 tons NM; ___ GRT, 879 NRT and 756tons under deck.
Rigged with a main sky-sail.
- 1855 February
- Launched at the shipyard of Alexander Stephen & Sons, Kelvinhaugh, for their own account [on speculation] ... Assigned the official British Reg. No. ____ and signal ____. Employed in the Australian passenger trade.
- 1855
- Sailed from Glasgow to Melbourne in 119 days after having been forced into Cape Town to repair storm damage.
- 1855
- Sailed from Calcutta to Deal in 114 days.
- 1856
- Chartered to the Government to assist in the evacuation of Crimea during the summer of 1856.
- 1856 September
- Sold to John G. Macfarlane, Glasgow, £11.500.
- 1860
- Sold to Anthony G. Robinson, London.
- 1865
- Sold to Bilbe & Perry.
- 1877
- Sold to New Zealand Shipping Co. for more than £7000 and was renamed Pareora.
- 1887
- Sold to J. Livinston.
- 1889
- Broken up.
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