Lammermuir (clipper)

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Lammermuir was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1864 by W. Pile & Co of West Hartlepool for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son, London. It was the second clipper ship by the same name. The Lammermuir (first) (clipper) was the favorite ship of John Willis and it was wrecked in the Gaspar strait the year before in (1863).

She measured 200'4"×35'5"×20'9" and tonnage 1054 NRT.

She was designed for the China tea trade. In 1866 she was almost wrecked in the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean by 2 typhoons. She was under the command of Captain M. Bell and carried the famous Lammermuir Party of 18 missionaries and 4 children of the China Inland Mission outbound to China.

[edit] References

• Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Four:: Survivors’ Pact; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1983

[edit] See also

• Lammermuir Hills

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