Wendur

A four-masted iron ship built in 1884 by C. Connell & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 89,17×12,80×7,21 meters [292'7"×42'0"×23'8"] and tonnage 2046 GRT and 1982 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. The fore and main masts orginally had skysails.

1884 September
Launched at the shipyard of C. Connell & Co., Glasgow, A. Mackay & Co., Glasgow. The first master was Captain R. Ramsey.
1884 November 13 - March 4
Sailed from Clyde to Calcutta in 111 days.
1886 September 23 - January 18
Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 117 days.
1894
Captain Frank R. Whitson took over command.
1894 July - September 24
Sailed from Fredrikstad to Melbourne in 81 days. 76 days from Dunnet Head.
1895 July 4
Sailed from Fredrikstad to Melbourne with a cargo of boards and paper.
1896 January 1 - January 30
Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Valparaiso in 29½ days. This was the new record for the passage, the previous was 32 days and was held by a steamer. The four-masted barque Loch Torridon which had sailed from Newcastle, NSW, on the same date as the Wendur arrived six hours later.
1896
Captain W.R. Nicoll.
1904
Captain E.R. Kendrick.
1906
Reduced to barque rig. The skysails were removed at the same time.
1909
Captain W. Thomas.
1912 March 9
Arrived at Plymouth with a cargo of wheat from Melbourne and was ordered to continue to Swansea.
1912 March 12
Wrecked on the Seven Stones, Scilly Islands, on voyage from Plymouth to Swansea. Captain G.H. Blackstock and seventeen men of the crew were picked up and saved by a Lowestoft steam drifter, while the steward and two men were lost.

Updated 1997-01-25 by Lars Bruzelius.


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