| Career (United Kingdom) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Ambassador |
| Owner: | W. Lund & Co |
| Builder: | William Walker, Lavender Dry Dock, London |
| Launched: | 1869 |
| Out of service: | 1896 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Composite clipper |
| Tons burthen: | 714 |
| Length: | 53,54 m |
| Beam: | 9,54 m |
| Draught: | 5,82 m |
'Ambassador' was a British Tea Clipper.
She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was Lund's first tea clipper.
Her fastest crossing between China and England was 108 days, in 1872. Though considered a fast ship, Ambassador was said to be "very cranky and overmasted" (Lubbock, The China Clippers, page 302). Her first passage to the UK from Foochow came during the Tea Race of 1870 under Captain Duggan and took 115 days, a mediocre performance; that same year the fastest tea passage, also from Foochow, was made by the clipper Lahloo in just 98 days.
Ambassador is one of the last four surviving composite ships.
Her beached skeleton, in Estancia San Gregorio, Chile, was declared a historical monument in 1973.[1][2]
(Probable location: )
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