Tamar

A steel full-rigged ship built in 1889 by Napier, Shanks & Bell, Dumbarton. Dimensions 286'8"×42'5"×24'0" and 2115 GRT and 2048 NRT. Had the usual company lion figurehead.

1889: Launched at the shipyard of Napier, Shanks & Bell, Dumbarton, for Devitt & Moore, London. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 96592 and signal LGDK.
1889-1893 December: In command of Captain John Robertson Brown late of the same owner's ship Duke of Athole.
1893 December - 1896 May: In command of Captain Warren W. Smith late of the same owner's ship Illawarra.
1896 May -1900: In command of Captain Henry Norquay Forbes late of the same owner's ship Harbinger.
1897: Sailed from Sydney to London in 89 days with a cargo of 7428 bales of wool.
1989: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to San Francisco in 51 days with a cargo of coal.
1900: Sold to T.A. Shute, Liverpool.
1903: Sailed from Dover to Callao in 68 days.
1922: Sold to Dutch owners.
1923: Broken up in Rotterdam.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Course, A.G.: Painted Ports. The story of the ships of Messrs Devitt and Moore.
Hollis & Carter, London, 1961. 8vo, x, 230 pp, 6 plates.
Lubbock, Basil: The Colonial Clippers.
Brown, Ferguson & Son, Glasgow, 1948 (2nd).

Updated 1997-05-06 by Lars Bruzelius

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