Wylo
Composite tea clipper built in 1869 by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, as Yard
No. 174.
Dimensions: 192'9"×32'1"×20'2" and tonnage: 829 GRT, 799½ NRT, and 766 2/3 tons under deck.
- 1869 April 15
- Launched at the shipyard of Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, for
Killick, Martin & Co., London.
Captain Henry Wray Browne late of the same owner's tea clipper
Challenger.
- 1869 June 1 - September 12
- Sailed from London to Shanghai in 103 days.
- 1869 October 22 - January 31
- Sailed from Shanghai to London in 101 days with a cargo of 1.027.924 lbs of tea.
- 1870 February 11 - May 25
- Sailed from London to Foochow in 103 days.
- 1870 August 18 - December 11
- Sailed from Foochow to London in 115 days with a cargo of 1.132.251 lbs of tea at £2 per ton.
- 1871 January 10 - April 29
- Sailed from London to Rangoon in 109 days.
- 1871 May 23 - August 31
- Sailed from Rangoon to Falmouth in 99 days.
- 1871 October 12 - January 30
- Sailed from London to Shanghai in 110 days.
- 1872 September 21 - December 15
- Sailed from Indramayoe, Java, to Falmouth
f.o. in 80 days.
- 1873 March 20 - June 27
- Sailed from Hamburg to Hong Kong in 99 days.
- 1873 September 24 - February 15
- Sailed from Manilla to New York in 144 days.
- 1876 April 14 - July 22
- Sailed from London to Shanghai in 99 days.
Departured from London and arrived at Anjer, June 29, at the same dates as as
the same owner's clipper Lothair.
- 1878
- Re-rigged as a barque.
- 1879 February 24 - May 16
- Sailed from London to Melbourne in 81 days.
- 1883
- Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 111 days with a cargo of
wheat.
- 1884
- Sailed from San Francisco to Barrow in 104 days with a cargo of wheat.
- 1885 January 8
- Left Barrow for Victoria, BC.
- 1885 April 1
- Put into Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, after
having lost bulwarks, stanchions and the mizzen mast off Cape Horn [?].
- 1886 July
- Sold to William Ross, London.
- 1886
- Sold to James Gibb Ross, Quebec, for £ 2375.
- 1888
- Sunk in a collison.
Updated 1997-05-18 by
Lars Bruzelius
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