Lammermuir (first) (clipper)
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Lammermuir was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1856 by W. Pile & Co of West Hartlepool for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son, London. It was the first clipper ship by the same name.
She measured 178'0"×34'0"×22'0" and tonnage 952 NRT.
Wrecked on the Amherst Reef in the Macclesfield Channel, Gaspar Strait. December 31 1863. The wreck was still visible above the water line in August 1866 when the new Lammermuir (clipper) sailed past en route to China.
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- Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Four:: Survivors’ Pact; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1983
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| Clipper ships, designers & builders | |
|---|---|
| British-built clippers | |
| Ariel | Blackadder |Challenger | Cutty Sark | Flying Cloud | Hallowe'en | Lammermuir | Leander | Lothair | Norman Court | Sir Lancelot | Tayleur | Thermopylae | Taitsing | |
| American-built clippers | |
| Champion of the Seas | Flying Cloud | Great Republic | James Baines | Lightning | |
| British designers and builders | |
| Hercules Linton | William Lithgow | John Scott Russell | Scott & Linton | |
| American designers and builders | |
| Donald McKay | Nathaniel Palmer | William Henry Webb | |
