Wylo (clipper)
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Wylo a composite clipper was built by Robert Steele & Company, Greenock, and launched on 15 April 1869.[2] Robert Steele & Company also built the famous clippers Ariel and Taeping who took part in the great tea race of 1866, and Sir Lancelot another renown clipper ship.[1]
A picture of Wylo | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Wylo |
Owner | Killick Martin & Company |
Builder | Robert Steele & Company, Greenock |
Launched | 15 April 1869 |
United Kingdom | |
Owner | William Ross, London |
Acquired | 1886 |
Canada | |
Owner | James Ross, Quebec |
Cost | £2375 |
Acquired | 1886 |
Fate | Beached 1886 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Composite clipper |
Tonnage | 829 NRT[1] |
Length | 192.9 ft (58.8 m)[1] |
Beam | 32.1 ft (9.8 m)[1] |
Depth | 20.2 ft (6.2 m)[1] |
Wylo was the 174th and last vessel to be built by Robert Steele & Company. She was 192.9 ft in length, had a beam of 32.1 ft, a depth of 20.2 feet and measured 829 Gross register tons.[1]
The Figurehead of Wylo still exists in the Fries Scheepvaart Museum in Sneek, the Netherlands. Item number FSM-J-122. A multi-colour painted image of a Moor with skirt and bared upper body. The head of the Moor is adorned with a turban. In the ears earrings. The pedestal is decorated with a spiral and leaf and diamond motifs. A finger has been broken off the right hand. The name Wylo is derived from Chinese, it would mean 'speed'.