Wylo

Composite tea clipper built in 1869 by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, as Yard No. 174. Dimensions: 192'9"×32'1"×20'2" and tonnage: 829 GRT, 799½ NRT, and 766 2/3 tons under deck.
1869 April 15
Launched at the shipyard of Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, for Killick, Martin & Co., London. Captain Henry Wray Browne late of the same owner's tea clipper Challenger.
1869 June 1 - September 12
Sailed from London to Shanghai in 103 days.
1869 October 22 - January 31
Sailed from Shanghai to London in 101 days with a cargo of 1.027.924 lbs of tea.
1870 February 11 - May 25
Sailed from London to Foochow in 103 days.
1870 August 18 - December 11
Sailed from Foochow to London in 115 days with a cargo of 1.132.251 lbs of tea at £2 per ton.
1871 January 10 - April 29
Sailed from London to Rangoon in 109 days.
1871 May 23 - August 31
Sailed from Rangoon to Falmouth in 99 days.
1871 October 12 - January 30
Sailed from London to Shanghai in 110 days.
1872 September 21 - December 15
Sailed from Indramayoe, Java, to Falmouth f.o. in 80 days.
1873 March 20 - June 27
Sailed from Hamburg to Hong Kong in 99 days.
1873 September 24 - February 15
Sailed from Manilla to New York in 144 days.
1876 April 14 - July 22
Sailed from London to Shanghai in 99 days. Departured from London and arrived at Anjer, June 29, at the same dates as as the same owner's clipper Lothair.
1878
Re-rigged as a barque.
1879 February 24 - May 16
Sailed from London to Melbourne in 81 days.
1883
Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 111 days with a cargo of wheat.
1884
Sailed from San Francisco to Barrow in 104 days with a cargo of wheat.
1885 January 8
Left Barrow for Victoria, BC.
1885 April 1
Put into Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, after having lost bulwarks, stanchions and the mizzen mast off Cape Horn [?].
1886 July
Sold to William Ross, London.
1886
Sold to James Gibb Ross, Quebec, for £ 2375.
1888
Sunk in a collison.

Updated 1997-05-18 by Lars Bruzelius


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