Sir Lancelot (clipper)
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Sir Lancelot was a clipper ship, measuring 197.6ft x 33.7ft x 21ft, and of 886 tons net. She was built in 1865 by Robert Steel & Co, Greenock.
In 1895 under Persian ownership, she was rumoured to have sunk on 1 October during a cyclone near Sand Heads, Calcutta whilst on passage from the Red Sea loaded with salt.
| Clipper ships, designers & builders | |
|---|---|
| British-built clippers | |
| Ariel | Blackadder |Challenger | Cutty Sark | Flying Cloud | Hallowe'en | Leander | Lothair | Norman Court | Sir Lancelot | Tayleur | Thermopylae | Taitsing | |
| American-built clippers | |
| Champion of the Seas | Flying Cloud | Great Republic | Lightning | |
| British designers and builders | |
| Hercules Linton | William Lithgow | Scott & Linton | |
| American designers and builders | |
| Donald McKay | Nathaniel Palmer | |
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