Lothair (clipper)

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Lothair was an iron-hulled clipper ship of 794 tons, built in 1869 by William Walker at Rotherhyde for their own shipping business. In 1873, she was purchased by Killick, Martin & Co. Lothair sailed on until about 1910.


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