Cedric the Saxon

A fullrigged iron clipper ship built in 1875 by John Reid & Co., Port Glasgow. Her dimensions were 259'8'×40'1"×23'6" and tonnage 1705 GRT, 1619 NRT, and 1529 tons under deck. The official British number was 74467 and her signal letters PHFK. Built for the Australian passenger trade. A sistership to the same owner's Lammermoor (1874) according to D.R. McGregor. Rigged with sky sail on the main mast.

1875 October: Launched at the shipyard of John Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, for the "Waverly" Line of Williamson, Milligan & Co., Liverpool. Her first master Captain T. Swan made only one voyage.
1876: Captain Alex. Burgess assumed command of the ship.
1880 May 14 — July 25: Sailed from Liverpool to Hooghly in 72 days.
1880 September 13 — December 17: Sailed from Calcutta to London in 95 days.
1881: Sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 84 days.
1881: Sailed from Melbourne to San Francisco.
1881 December 10 — March 24: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 124 days.
1883: Sailed from Liverpool to Sydney in 80 days.
1884: Sailed from Liverpool to Sydney in 95 days.
1885 October 1 — January 26: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 117 days with a cargo of 2319 tons of weat under command of Captain F. McNair.
1886: Loaded coal at Cardiff for San Francisco where she arrived after 120 days.
1886: Sailed from San Francisco to Hull in 111 days.
1886: Captain W. Harris took over command of the ship when Captain McNair was appointed to the company's new four-masted ship Kenilworth.
1887 March 3 — July 27: Sailed from Hull to San Francisco in 144 days under command of Captain W. Harris.
1887 September 21 — January 6: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 108 days.
1888: Sailed from Liverpool for San Francisco under command of Captain Vesey, but was partially dis-masted in the South Atlantic and had to put into Rio de Janeiro for a month of repairs.
1888 September 4: Arrived at San Francisco, 189 days from Liverpool.
1888: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 121 days.
1888-1891: Captain A.T. Pope.
1889: Sailed from Liverpool to Calcutta in 95 days.
1889: Sailed from Port Pirie to Liverpool in 121 days.
1892: Sailed from Beachy Head to Melbourne in 75 days.
1896: Sold to owners outside Great Britain.
1896 October: Sailed from New York with a cargo of case oil for the East Indies but disappeared en route.

Updated 1996-12-13 by Lars Bruzelius.

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