Patriarch

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1869 by Walter Wood & Co., Aberdeen, at a cost of £ 24.000. Dimensions 222'1"×38'1"×22'3" and 1405 GRT, 1339 NRT and 1184 tons under deck. The poop was 90 feet long and provided accommodation for 40 saloon passengers.

The hull was painted Aberdeen-green and the masts and spars white.

The lower and top-masts were in one piece with telescopic topgallant-masts.

1869 September: Launched at the shipyard of Walter Wood & Co., Aberdeen, for the Aberdeen White Star Line (G. Thompson & Co.), Aberdeen. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 60696 and signal LQKC. Employed in the Australian passenger and wool trade.
1869-1876: In command of Captain G. Pile.
1869 December 30 - February 10: Sailed from London to Port Jackson, Sydney in 67 days, pilot to pilot, or 74 days anchorage to anchorage.
1870: Sailed from Sydney to London in 69 days.
1873 April 12 - June 30: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 79 days.
1873 October 25 - January 27: Sailed from Sydney to London in 94 days.
1874 June 8 - August 24: Sailed from the Isle of Wight to Sydney in 77 days.
1874 November 14 - February 6: Sailed from Sydney to London in 84 days.
1875: Sailed from Torbay to Sydney in 82 days.
1875 November 26 - February 18: Sailed from Sydney to London in 84 days.
1876 June 23 - September 2: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 71 days.
1876 December 4 - March 6: Sailed from Sydney to London in 92 days.
1877-1887: In command of Captain Plater.
1877 July 3 - September 15: Sailed from Start to Sydney in 72 days.
1877 November 21 - February 28: Sailed from sydney to London in 99 days.
1878: Sailed from Sydney to London in 79 days.
1878 December 16 - March 15: Sailed from Sydney to Lizard in 89 days.
1879: LR 1879-80: Master: Captain G. Pile [?].
1880 January 17 - April 19: Sailed from Sydney to London in 92 days.
1880 October 29 - February 3: Sailed from sydney to London in 97 days.
1881 November 15 - March 6: Sailed from Sydney to London in 111 days.
1882 November 26 - April 10: Sailed from Sydney to London in 105 days.
1883 May 16 - July 28: Sailed from Start to Sydney in 73 days.
1883 November 3 - February 2: Sailed from Sydney to London in 91 days.
1884 October 12 - January 10: Sailed from Sydney to the Channel in 90 days.
1885 March 9 - May 23: Sailed from Start to Sydney in 75 days. Reached the Equator 18 days out from London.
1885 October 5 - January 7: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to London in 94 days.
1886: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 97 days.
1886 October 24 - January 89: Sailed from Sydney to London in 89 days.
1887-1890: Captain Allan. [Lubbock has 1888-1891]
1887: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 79 days.
1887 October 16 - January 20: Sailed from Sydney to London in 96 days.
1888: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 79 days.
1889 January 27 - April 26: Sailed from Sydney to London in 89 days.
1889: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 77 days.
1890-1898: Captain Mark Breach.
1890: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 87 days.
1891: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 82 days. Arrived on the same day as the Cutty Sark which had left London three days before the Patriarch.
1892: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 80 days.
1893: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 99 days.
1894: Sailed from the Channel to Sydney in 77 days.
1897: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Manila with a cargo of coal.
1898 November 1: Sold to G.T. Mousen, Stavanger, Norway, for £ 3150.
1903: Grounded on the coast of the Rio Grande while on voyage to Buenos Ayres.
1908: Sailed from Monte Video to Port Victoria, Make, in 64 days.
1910: Sailed from Bantjar, Java, to Delagoa Bay in 57 days.
1911 December 25: Sailed from Algoa Bay for a Gulf port.
1912 February 23: Stranded on a reef in the Bay of Corrientes, Cuba, and became a total loss.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Lubbock, Basil: The Colonial Clippers.
Brown, Ferguson & Son, Glasgow, 1948 (2nd).
Lubbock, Basil: The Romance of the Clipper Ships.
Hennel Locke, London, 1948.
Hume, Cyril L. & Armstrong, Malcolm C.: The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail.
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1987. 8vo, (4), x, 182 pp, ill, 16 plates.

Updated 1999-07-15 by Lars Bruzelius

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