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Index of Merchant sailing ships, 1850-1875 : heyday of sail

by
David R. MacGregor

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INDEX


Figures in italic denote page numbers of
illustrations.
No steamers listed in the Appendices are included.
No ships are indexed from Appendices III and
VI.

A
Abbey 80
Abbot Lawrence 43, 45
Abeona, cost 237; sail plan 131;
   specification and inventory 242-46
Aberdeen bow 80, 118
Abergeldie 148
Acasta 34
Accrington, ex-Francois Arago 38, 38
Achilles 229
Aconcagua 113
Adamson & Son 34
Adelaide 41
SS Admiral Moorsom 116
Adriatic 45
Advance 112
Agnes Rose 148, 151
Aid, under sail 196
Airlie, costs 239; described 133-34;
   hull-form 133, 136; sail plan 134, 135
Albion Shipping Co 131
Alexander Duthie 148
Alexandre 227, 229
Alhambra 45
Alice Maud 80
Aline 240
Alive 154
Alma (iron sch 1854) 100
Alma (wood sch 1854) 41
Alma (sch 1861) 88
Alphonse Elisa 86
Altcar 113
Amadine 157
Amana, costs 239; deck fittings 137;
   hull-form 136; sail plan 136,136
Amanda 98; stern view 210
Amazon (S 1850) 21
Amazon (bgn 1861) 79
Amber Witch 227
Amelia, at Wisbech 196
American Civil War 14, 172
Amerika 202
Aminta 113
Amos Lawrence 45-46; plans 46
Anderson, Dr R C 160
Andromeda 113
Aneroid 202
Angelita, costs 236; design 82, iron
   schooner 21, 23; plan 82, 95
Angerona 161
Anita Owen 78
Ann (bgn 1861) 207
Ann Duthie, hull-form 148, 151; lines plan
   149; sail plan 151
Ann Humphreys 192
Ann Middleton 192
Anna (bk 1871) 238
Anna und Meta 105
Annan, shipyard 157, 160
Annandale 157
Annie Duthie 138
Annie Main 238
Annie Richmond 238
Annie Story 237
SS Antelope 23
Antiope at anchor 145; half-model 29, 140,
   142; sail plan 143
Antonia 238
Aphrodita, compared 114, deck layout 27,
   36-37, hull-form 19, 36-37, lines and
   deck plan 37, sail plan 37-38, 38
Araby Maid 239
Aracan 34
Arachne 34
Ardgowan 239
Ardmore, sail plan 142
Arethusa 240
Argo, after deck view 120
Ariel (tea clipper) 27
Arima 236
Armin 238
Arriero 82, 236
Arundel Castle 239
Ashburner, Richard, plans 215


Assaye 239
Astronom, under sail 124
Atlantid 238
Atlantic Iron Works 10
Augusta, at Calcutta 175
Aurora (sch 1838) 100
Aurora (S 1874) 147, 240
Aurora del Titicaca 238
Austin, S P & Sons 30
Australian 148
Auxiliary propeller 139-41
Auxiliary ships 21, 23, 31, 36
Auxiliary steamers 131-32
Avalanche 154
Aviemore 151

B

Bacchus, dismasted 118
Baines, James, & Co, failed 132; mail
   contract 14; orders from McKay,
   44-45
Balclutha 179
Baldwin & Dinning 51
Ballarat 55
Ballengeich 12
Balley, J B, shipbuilder 102
Baltic 45
Baltimore clipper model 42, 97
Banian 36
Banks, shipbuilder 228
Bannockburn 240
Barclay, Curle, & Co, barques with 4
   masts 189; build 'City' ships 132,
   138-39; clippers of 1870-74 listed 140;
   plans survive 10, 29, 113, 138; ships
   built in 1850s 28-29; ships built
   1860-75, 118, 138-42, 188-89, 205;
   ships with 4 masts 188-89; steam
   boilers 116
Barclay, Robert 28
Barges, barque and barquentine rig 112,
   230-31; boomies 112, 229-30; large
   hulls 112; spritsail 111-12, 229; West
   Country types, 231-33
Barkantine 107
Baron Blantyre, painting 160
Baron Colousay, described 145, 147;
   photograph 146
Baron Renfrew 189
Barque on slip 18
Barquentines, built of iron 223, 225;
   classed as square-rigged 197; early
   examples 105-07; 3 masted brigantine
   107
Barquetta 107, 227
Barratt, Woolston, artist 183
Barrow flats 90
Bartram & Sons 30
Bates, Edward, shipowner 39
Bates Family 39
Bay of Naples 154
Bayadere 202
Bear, William, draughtsman 84
SS Beaver 147
Beazley, James 164, 169
Beckermet 192
Beemah 21, 60
Bella Rosa 218, 220
Belle of Benin 202; painting 203
Belle of Lagos, compared to other vessels
   82, 85; cost 205, 238; hull-form and
   deck layout 205; lines plan 205, 205;
   perspective 206; sail plan 84, 205, 206;
   section and deck plan 205
Belle of the Clyde, cost 237; hull-form and
   decks 82-83, 205; hull plans, 82, 83;
   sail plan 84, 84, 193
Belle of the Mersey 82, 236
Belle of the Niger 82, 238
Beltana 59
Ben Cruachan 140
Ben Nevis 47, 139; plan 141
Ben Voirlich 140
Bencleuch 240
Benmore 143
Berkshire, sail plan 139
Bess Mitchell 207
Bessemer, Henry 10
Betsey 207
Bhurtpoor, described 50
Biddle, Tyrrel E, sail plan 106


Bigelow, Ebenezer 197
Bilbe & Perry 40
Billy-boys 108-11, 229
Bima 202
Bird, Ralph, draws plans 195, 197; works
   on Millom Castle 211
Black Ball Line 14
Blackburn 36
Blackwall frigates, design 52-53; changing
   role 65, 67
Black Watch 236
Blenheim 53, 56, 67, 85
Blervie Castle 41, 41
Blonde 207
Bluejacket, at Blakeney 110; deck layout
   109, 109-11; hull-form 108-09; ketch
   rig 109, 111, 229; lines plan 109; sail
   plan 109, 111; windlass 109
Blythe & Greene 30
Board of Trade 16
Borrowdale, compared and described
   161-62; figurehead 163
Boju & Bertrand 86
Bolton tug 100
Bootle 225
Bonanza 105-06
Borneuf 13
Boscastle harbour 233
Bosse, shipbuilder 124
Bothwell Castle 236
Bouker, shipbuilder 227
Boukje, stern view 217
Bouquet, Michael 80
Bowdler, Chaffer & Co 117
Brands & Scorgie 76
Brechin Castle 238
Brenhilda 140
Bridges, carver 56
Bridgetown, ashore 81
Brig, being replaced 190; hove-to off
   Gravesend 199; in Europe 195; rig
   altered 195
Brigantine, in America 197; in Canada
   197, 202; leaving Ramsgate 199
Briggs, W & Son, shipbuilders 157
Bristol, ships photographed 19, 39, 49, 51
Bristol Museum, plans 233
Britannia, cost 239; described 136; sail plan
   136; sections and plan 135
British Admiral 182
British Ambassador, hull-form 167; long
   mainyard 46, 164
British General, under tow 167
British India, ex-Sorabjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy
   118
British Monarch 157
British Nation, plan 163-64
British Navy 117
British Peer 164
British Shipowners Co 164
Brocklebank, T & J, early barquentine
   105; few brigs after 1850, 190;
   foreman 86; ships described 34-36;
   yard closed 163, 192
Brooker, James, carver 56
Brothers 76, 179
Brown, blockmaker 38
Brown & Anderson, shipbuilders 50
Brown & Harfield, windlass 37
Bruce, David, shipowner 133
Brucklay Castle 154
Brunel, I K 38
Brunette 207
Building Lists, A Stephen at Dundee and
   Glasgow 1850-60, 21; A Stephen at
   Glasgow 1859-75,82; Barclay, Curle
   1870-74, 140; Jones Quiggin 1859-64,
   113; George Co in 1850s 42; Hall
   1870-75, 154; J & J Hair, 80; John
   Gray, 80, McKay's medium clippers,
   45; Shepherd & Leech, 192; Simpson's
   schooners, 94; W H Nevill, 207;
   Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co, 161;
   Wm Clibbet 1850-65, 85
Buckeridge & Co 112
Burns 19, 157
Burnswark 157
Burry 207
Bury St Edmunds 30
Butter-rigged 100

C

C.A. 207
C.H.S. 207
SS C.J. Texbor 59
Cairnbulg 148
Cairnsmore 29
Calabar 228
Calypso (Dutch bk c1855) 40
Calypso (S 1871) 154; crew 153
SS Cambria 207
Cambridgeshire 182
Camertonian 20, 36
Camperdown 133, 135, 240
Candahar, in collision, 154
Candida 161, at Sydney 162
Canopus (bk 1870) 239
Canopus (sch 1876) 167
Capella, 123
SS Carbon 39
Carey, brig 103
Carlisle Castle 67, 167
Carmelita 237
Carnatic, carvings, 20; iron barque, 21, 23,
   236; sail plan 23
Carne, H jnr, shipbuilder, 112
Caroline (sch 1850) 93
Caroline (S 1851) 43
Caroline (brig by 1861) 103
Caroline (S by 1861) 118
Caroline (bk 1869) 238
Carpasian 202
Carrick, ex-City of Adelaide 157
Carrie Bell, bows 96
Cartsburn 239

Carver, C.P. & Co builders 216
Cathcart 240
Catling, Peter 79, 108-10
Cato, Miller & Co 117
Catto, R, & Sons, owners 22
Cazique 107
Cecilie 202
Cedric the Saxon 143
Centaur 167; as a barque 169
Centreboard, 11, 100
Centurion (S 1868) 238
Centurion (S 1869) 151; painting 153
Challenge 46
Champion of the Seas 44
Chapelle, comments and quotes 51, 82,
   197; draws schooner plans 102,
   215-216; takes off lines 10
Chapman, af, masting rules 187
Chapman & Flint, shipbuilders 172
Chariot of Fame 44
Charlemagne, cost 236; design as cargo
   carrier 19, 22-23; sail plan 23;
   sequence of construction 22; telescopic
   jibboom 60
Charles under sail 123
Charles Chalmers 151
Charlestown 233
Chieftain 88; sail plan 90
Chiloe 38
China trade 130
Chincha Islands 8
Choice (bk 1854) 80
Choice (sch 1854) 100
Chowringhee 31, 53; launch 31
Chrysolite, cut down to schooner 225, 226;
   listed 192; sail plan compared 86, 98,
   106, 192, 196, 222-223; sail plan
   described 225, 226
Chrysomene 182-83
Circe 239
City of Adelaide 157
City of Athens 239
City of Bombay 132, 236
City of Calcutta 21, 23, 132, 236
City of Cashmere 132, 236
City of Canton 239
City of Corinth 139
City of Dublin 239
City of Glasgow (1847) 132
City of Glasgow (1867) 247
City of Hankow 131-32, 236
City of Lahore 132, bows 132; painting 133;
   236
City of Lucknow 21, 23, 132, 236
City of Madras (1855) 147, 239
City of Madras (1859) 21, 23, 132, 236


252

City of Perth 27-38; plans 28
City of Quebec 239
City of Sparta 132, 236
City of Tanjore 239
City of York 138
Clark, W, artist 63-64
Clevedon, ex-Chrysomene 183
Cley mill 78
Clibbett, Wm, ships listed 84-85
Clio 232
Clippers, built at Annan 157; compared
   with cargo carriers 161, 19-20; few in
   number 20; large American 42; orders
   stopped 136
Clover, G R, & Co 118, 181
Clyde, carvings 62; contract 61; costs 61,
   236; hull-form 55; iron Blackwaller 21,
   59; midship section 64; painting 63;
   sail plan 64, 65
Clydevale 238
Clytemnestra 113
Coila, entering port 200
Coleman, Capt 53
Colling & Pinkey 72, 147
Collingrove 59
Collingwood (S 1872) 151
Collingwood (spritsail barge) 111
Columbia 202
Columbus 189
Comadre 238
Comet 80
Commissary 154
Commodore Perry 44-45
Composite construction, 12, 113-14, 207;
   examples and prices, 13, 134; in
   Holland 11-12; last ships so built, 169
Concord 207
Condor in harbour 127
Constellation 132
Cook, shipbuilder 85, 225
Constellation 132
Cook, shipbuilder 85, 225
Copernicus 237
Corner, Capt 69, 167
Cornhill, certificate 171
Cornish, HJ, surveyor 143, 187
Corona stern, 128
Coronella 223
Corsair's Bride 80
Cossipore 21
Costs, America 10, 172, 174; 'barquentine'
   in 1866, 107; barque in 1857 21-22;
   based on BM tonnage 24; Belle of Lagos
   205; Blackwall frigates 56; Canadian
   ships 13, 48; Clyde 63; East India outfit
   56; Eastern Monarch 60; Edsmund Preston
   24; Hall's ships 154; iron ships 133;
   Jones, Quiggin's ships 113; Josiah
   Jones' yard 36; losses incurred 95;
   New York in 1850s 46; procuring
   timber 61; sails of barquentine 225;
   Stephen's brigs & schooners 82;
   Stephen's ships & schooners 22-24,
   130-31, 132, 136, Appendix I; to fit
   screw propeller 22; Upham's yard 218;
   W H Nevill's yard 207
County of Cromarty 189, sail plan 188
Coutts & Parkinson, shipbuilders 31-32
Cox, Ebenezer, shipbuilder 197
Cox, George, ships listed 41-42; ships built
   92, 111, 204, 225
Cox & Miller, shipbuilders 169
Crags 196
Craig Ewan 22; in harbour 223
Craig, J & R, shipowners 188
Cram, George 36
Cremorne 107
Crimean War 14, 16, 20, 42; transports
   wanted 14, 16, 51-52; ships released 14
Cristobal Solar, ex-Talisman, ex-Cursetjee
   Furdoonjee, clewing up sail 169
Croft, shipbuilder 202
Cronkbone 36
Crown, John 30
Crystal Palace, copied 29
Curle, Robert 28
Cuming W, & Co 195
Curtsetjoe Jurdoonjee 169
Cutters, influence design 88
Cutty Serk 205
Cyclone 20-21, 60, 236
Cynthia 76
Czarewitz 218, 220


D

SS Daehome 21, 236
Dairy Maid 95-96, 209
Dallam Tewer 186
Dartmouth 21, 59, 62
Date, W, shipbuilder 227



David Geider Gallery 27
De Putro & Candin 100
Deck fittings, Aberdeen house 205;
   auxiliary propellors 139-40, 141;
   Brown's capstan 80; davits and
   bulwarks 137; described 1875 for new
   ship 145,147; Emerson & Walker
   windlass 116; Express 98; long boat
   awkward 34, 98; pumps 166, 179;
   Ravensworth 33-34; St. Paul 179; steam
   boiler 116-17; wooden windlass 129;
   working pumps 216
Deck layout, 'City Line', ships 28-29; flush
   decks 27, 118
Defender 45
Dennis Hill 34
Dennistown & Co 23
Denny, Alexander 23
Denny Wm, Bros, plans 28, 113
Derbyshire 113
Derwent 138
Design, appraisal of 1850s 18-20;
   Blackwall frigates 52-53, 55;
   Brocklebank ships 34; Canadian ships
   13; builder's description 21; Edmund
   Preston 23-24; fine lines versus full
   bottoms 12-14, 16, 19-20;
   improvements at Sunderland 30-31,
   medium clippers 19-20; medium
   clippers in USA 42-44; packet ships
   42, 44; schooners in USA 100;
   shipbuilders who used plans 215;
   Stephen's brigs and schooners 82-84;
   Stephen's ships after 1860, 130; use of
   diagonals 79; use of half-models 215;
   Webb's ships 46; West Country barges
   231
Deucalion 157
Deutschand 11, 123
Deveron 280
Devitt & Moore 67, 157
Devonport 85
Dewdney, S, & Sons, shipbuilders 217
Dickerhoff, John R, rigger 166
Dismasting, American clippers 176;
   examples given 143, 145, 182-84;
   reasons for 182, 184-87; see also Lloyd's
   Report
Dismasting of Large Iron Sailing Skips 143,
   182, App VI
Domitilla 113
Don Ricardo 80
Donald McKay hull-form 44-46; lines plan
   44; passages 46; sail plan 45-46
Donietta 113
Doris Brodersen 123
Douro 147
Dove, T, artist 48
Down Easters 174
Downie, W I, quoted 65-66
Doxford, William, shipbuilder 30
Draughtsmanship, Barclay, Curle sail
   plan 142; detailed deck plan 36; in
   Stephen's yard 82; lines plan 24, 79;
   sail plan of Chrysolite 225; sail plans
   73-74, 84-85; Stephen's plans 125, 130;
   Whitehaven snow 192
Dreyer, shipbuilder 123
Dubigeon, T, shipbuilder 123, 128
Duchess of Edinburgh 182
Dudgeon, J & W 40
Dunbar, described 55-56; hull-form 55-57,
   59; lines plan 53, 54, 55; lithograph 57;
   plan referred to 30; rigging sizes 57;
   sail plan 56, 56-57
Dunbar, Duncan 55-57, 59
Duncan Dunbar 56
Dunniker 230
Duntrune 133
Duthie, Alexander & Co 29, 55, 148
Duthie, John, Sons & Co 148, 151
Duthie, Robert, shipbuilder 148, 151
Dutton T G, artist 34, 56
Duxfield, engineer 56

E

E.S. Hocken 127
E. Shun 239
Eagle 80
Earl of Balcarras 60, 64
Earl of Carlisle, sail plan 76, 77
Earnings, Nicholson fleet 160
East India outfit, see Outfit
Eastee, George, owner, 82-83, 205
Eastern Monarch (S 1856), cost 56, 59-60;
   dimensions 21; half-model 20, 59;
   hull-form 55, 59; large size 52, 59-60;
   lines plan 59; painting 59, 60; timber
   consumed 60-61


Eastern Monarch (S 1874), moored 154
Ebenezer, under sail 72
Eblana 118
Eboe 228
Eckford Webb, described 102, sail plan 101,
   102
Eden Holme 247
Edmund Preston, construction described 21,
   23-27; contract 23-24; cost 24, 236;
   deck layout 25, 27; hull-form 24, 82,
   130; lines plan 25, oil paintings 27; sail
   plan 26; sections and decks 25;
   specification 23-24, 26-27, 39
Edna, compared to Raymond 197, 202;
   described 197; painting 202
Edwin Fox 86
Eglinton 48
Eident 88; lines plan 105, 107
Electric Telegraph 80
Elements of sailmaking 85
Eliza Shaw, hull-form 130, 154; cost 236
Elizabeth (slp 1844), sail plan 234, 234
Elizabeth (sch 1872) 154
Elizabeth Duncan 21, 82
Eizabeth Kelly 192
Elizabeth Nicholson 157, 160
Ellen Ashcroft 190
Ellen Bates 118
Ellen Stuart 36, 37
Emerald 32
Emerson & Walker, windlass, 116
Emigration to Australia 13-14
Emily Burnyeat 209
Emily Smeed 231
Emily Smith 80
Emma 100
Empreza 227
England's Glory, model 156, 157
Englishman 95, 98
Ennerdale 162
Erato 190
Erme 227
Eskdale 161
Ester Smeed 230
Ethiopian 151
SS Euphrates 21, 23, 236
Eurydice 240
Euterpe 166
Evans, R & J, shipbuilders 117
Evans, Thomas, shipbuilder 41
Evelyn 113
Express compared to others 94, 96-97, 209;
   costs 96; deck layout 97, 98; hull-form
   88, 97-98; sail plans reconstructed 98,
   99, 100; lines plan 97, 97-98
   
F   

Fairy Belle, on slip 181
Falcon 29
Familia 105
Fanny 106
Fanny Jane, under sail 110, 111
Farr, Grahame, on rigs, 107, 11
Faveur, in harbour 205
Fawcett, Preston & Co 23
Fawn lines plan 195, 195, 199
Fearless 218
Fell, Jonathan, shipbuilder 36
Fenton, Roger, photographer 14
Ferguson, naval architect 188
Fernie Bros & Co 50, 132
Ferris, William, shipwright 211
Fiery Cross 223
Figureheads 31, 55, 56; carvers 98
Fincham, masting rules 187
Fleetwood 239
Fling 88, 97 220-21
Flora under sail 234
Florence 218, 221
Florence Barclay 86
Flying Venus 39
Follett, shipbuilder 41
Forest, in collision 154
Formby, cost 113; cross-sections 115; deck
   layout 116-17; detailed plans 114-17,
   163; hull-form 114; sail plan 117, 117
   PS Forth 105
Forward Ho! 238
Four-masted barque, early examples 175,
   189
Four-masted ships, early examples 188-89
Fox & Son, shipbuilders 112
France, shipbuilding in 14, 118, 123
Francisco Calderon 188
Francois Arago 38
Fred Clark, sail plan 197, 200
Fredique 103,195
Freights, from China 130
Friedeburg 238
Fruiterer 80
Furneaux, shipbuilder 217
Fusi Yama 237

G

Gaddy, David 34
Gaddy & Lamb, shipbuilders 34, 192
Galleas, painting 108
Ganges, half-model 53; hull-form 157; lines
   plan 158
Garstang 203-204
Gauntlet 94, 96
Geddie, James, vessels built and described
   76, 79, 107, 221, 223; hull-form
   favoured 86, 88; plans by 88, 90, 215
Gellatley, Edward 55
Gellatly, Hankey & Co 55
Gellatley, Hankey & Sewell 55, 132
Georg Stage 202
George, Charles, shipwright 232
George Smeed 230
George's Dock, Liverpool 14
Germania, cost 239; described 136; sail plan
   136; sections and plans 135
Gertrude 207
Getty, John 36
Getty & Jones 36
Gibson, J F, photographer 225
Gilroy 148
Girl of the Period 226
Gitanilla 157
Gladstone, ex-Franscisco Calderon, partially
   dismasted 183
Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum, 140
Glassford, Roderick, 187, 246
Glasson, schooners built, 94-100
Glenavon 151
Glencoyn 236
Glory of the Seas, 175, 177; at wharf 177; in
   old age 179
Godeffroy, J C, & Son, 125
Gold rush, Australian 13-14, 55;
   Californian 42
Gossamer 130, 236
Gouin, E, & Co, shipbuilders 123
Gould, E C, photographer 53, 66
Grace Gibson 237
Graham, Prof G S 17
Grasmere 161
Gray, John, draws plan 215; shipbuilder
   41, 80-81; ships listed 80
Great Admiral 175
Great Britain 32
Great Britain, tonnage owned 14, 16
PS & SS Great Eastern 38, 167
Great Republic, four masted barque 189;
   size before burnt 45-46
Great Tasmania, ex-Japan 45
Green, R & H, 40; build in iron 67;
   examples named 55, 167
Green, Richard, shipowner 31, 53
Greenhill, Basil, 211, 229, 233
Greig, Hood's manager, 151, 154
Greta, sail plan 161, 163, 163
Griffiths, John W, 106-07
Grijalva 207, 228; painting 229
Grisedale 162
Gryfe 239
Gryll's patent whelps, 24
Guibert Fils 38
Guiding Star 50
Gulston, shipbuilder 202
Guppy, Thomas R, 39

H

Hainsworth, J, shipowner 217
Hair, J & J, ships described and listed
   32-33, 70-80; draw plans 215
Haiti 28
Halcione 240
Half-models, bracket type 220-21, 222;
   Nicholson's 157, 160; used by
   shipyards 124, 211, 213, 215, 232; used
   by Stephen 22, 24
Hall, Alexander, & Sons, auxiliary
   propeller 139; build jackass barques
   106-07, 227-28; prices of ships 154;
   raking stem 76; shipyard 153; small
   craft described 90, 196, 221; surviving
   records 10, 29, 90;, use of word
   schooner' 87; vessels built 1870-75
   154
Hall, Henry 42
Hall, James 154
Hall, Russell & Co 140
Hall, William 154
SS Hampshire 147
Hannah and Sarah 112
Hannah & Eleanor 103
Hannah Douglas 195
Hardy, Simon, & Sons 21


253
Harfield, windlass 147
Harkaway 59; dimensions 21; sail plan 20,
   59
Harland & Wolff 154, 163
Harold 34, 86
Harper, Lawrence 16
Harrison, Robert 32, 80, 215
Harrison, T, & Co 203
Hartfield 239
Harvey, Henry, shipbuilder 41, 102
Harvey & Co, shipbuilders 11, 73, 207,
   223, 225-26
Hasslof, Olof, quoted 124
Haswell, George 30
Havelock 111
Harvest Queen, plans 88
Hawk 85
Hay, Daniel 192
Hay, Richard 31, 157
Heap, Joseph, shipowner 143
Hecube 113
Hedderwick, shipbuilder 227
Hedwig 11
Helen Nicholson 29, 140
Helen Scot 113
Helena Mena 167
Helios I sail plan 125
Henderson, James 76
Henrietta Simmons 94
Henry Harvey 207
Henry Sempe 238
Henson, shipbuiler 108
Herbert Huntingdon 79
Hero ('pro tem') 90
Herzogin Marie 10, 11
Hesperus 147, 240
Highflyer, hull-form 55
Hilda, yacht 197
Hill, Cmdr H O 195, 211
Hill, shipbuilder 41
Hillmann, G, copied plans 44, 73, 118
Hinda 207
Hipwood, S, shipbuilder 233-34
Hoad Bros, shipbuilders 197
Hoang Ho 236
Hocking, shipbuilder 41
Hodgson, James, surveyor 23-24, 39
Hoffnung 11
Hoghton Tower, at wharf, 181
Hokitike 154
Holman, John, Upham's manager, 217
Holmsdale 59
Hood, W, shipbuilder 29, 76, 151
Horsfall, Charles, & Sons 107
Hotspur 34
Houghton Bros, shipbuilders 174
Howes' topsails 46
Huddersfield 167
'Hull and Spars', outfit listed 22
Hull-form, double-ended 90, 211;
   influence of Tyburnia 61-62;
   kettle-bottom 31; medium clippers in
   USA 42; repeated 86, schooners in
   UK 88-90, 209-10; see also Design
Hurnboldt 237
Humphrey, John & Co, 148
Huntress 101
Hurricane, clipper 21, 23; cost 236; sail plan
   60, 151
Hyde & Co, shipbuilders 78

I

Ianthe, described 21-22
Ida, ready to be launched 199
Impi, in dry dock 122
Importer, ex-Wasp 49
HMS Inconstant 185
India 167
Industrie 124
Industry 233; under sail 232
Inglis, A & J, 132
Inkermann, hull-form 50-51; lines plan 50
Invercauld 151
Invincible 36
Iredale, Henry 161-62
Iredale, Peter 162
Irish Sea stern 90, 211
Iron construction, America 10; Bates's
   ships 39; capacity increased 13-14, 20;
   France 123; Germany 11, 123; Great
   Britain 10-11, 14, 16-18; Holland
   11-12, 123-24; large ships of 1850s 31,
   36, 39; Nevill's yard 206-207; sequence
   of construction 22, 24; specification,
   Appendix IV; shell expansion plan 83;
   spars 167; Tyne and Wear, 157
Irton 225
Isabella Anderson 81
Isle of Beauty, painting 207
Ismay 236

J

J.W. Parker 82, 197
Jacatra 29
Jackass barques, comments on rig 227-29;
   examples 87, 107, 217; listed 227-28;
   sail plans 103, 106
James Baines 44, 46
James Booth, lines plan 29, 29
James A. Borland, lines plan 46, 172
James Davidson hull-form compared 85-86,
   192-193, 197, 204, 225; lines plan
   85-86, 86
James Pilkington 36
Jampa 207
Jane Blythe 113
Jane Leech 42
Jane Smith 217
Jane Williamson 190
Jane Cowan 239
Janet Ferguson 236
Janette 82, 238
Japan 44-45
Jason 140
Jefferson Borden, engraving 219
Jeppersen, Haris 74
SS Jho-sho-maru 154
Jobling, E W, surveyor 41
Johanna 207
John Bell 21, 23, 60, 236
John Duthie 148; in Sydney 149
John Farley, half-model 90, 91
John Gray 80
John Hillman 80
John Kerr, dismasted 143, 182
John Lidgett 132, 236
John Nickolson, hull-form 157, 160; sail plan
   160
John, W S, surveyor 143, 187
John Wesley 87; model 221
John Williams III 154
Johnson, shipbuilder 226
Johnson, John, shipbuilder 90
Jollet, P, & Babin 123
Jones, Josiah, jnr 36, 38, 113
Jones, Quiggin & Co, ships listed 36,
   113-14, 117
Jones, Palmer & Co 36
Jordan, John 36
Jordan & Getty 36
Josefa 238
Joseph Conrad, ex-Georg Stage 202
Joseph Perkins 216
Joshua, ex-Nepaulese Ambassador 42
Juan de la Vega 154, 196
Juanpore hull-form 34; lines plan 34;
   passages 36; sail plan 34, 36
Jubilee 36
Julia 79-80

K

Kamehameha the Fourth 36
Kappa cost 237; sail plan 129
Kate 94, 96
Katie 98
Kelly, W, shipbuilder 41, 195
Kelly & Co, owners 98
Kelpie, called schooner 87; described
   106-07; listed 227-28; painting 105;
   sail plan 102, 105-07
Kennaugh, William, drew plans 195-96,
   225; price of sails 225
Kennedy, Lumley, & Co 36, 86, 190
Kent, hull-form 53, 55; passages 53, 55;
   photographed 53
Ketch, early examples 108, 111; with
   square sails 229
Khimjee Odowjee 38
Kildonan 238
King Arthur 239
King Richard 31, 53
King of Tyre 220
Kingsbridge, sinking 154
Killick, Capt J 154
Killick, Martin & Co 130-31, 154
Kipping, R, sailmaker 84-85
Kitta Wake 90
Klubb, E, shipbuilder 122
Knell, W A, artist 59
Knight of Snowdoun 147, 239
Kof, schooner-rigged 93
Kosciusko 151

L

La Hogue 56-57
Lady Ann Duff 88
Lady Ebrington 41
Lady Palmerston 239; bow view 147
Lady Penrkyn 239
Lady Quirk, ex-Raymond 202
Lady Ruthven 240
Ladyburn 240



Laing, James, & Sons, build blackwall
   frigates 30, 52, 55-57, 59, 61, 71
Laing, Sir James 59
Laing, John 59
Laing, Philip 59
Laird, John, shipbuilder 38, 118
Lake Simcoe 240; under sail 228
Lake Superior 147, 240
Lalla Rookk 38
Lamb, Lewis M 34
Lammermoor, at Calcutta 145; half-model
   143; long yards 143, 183
Lammershagen 238
Lancashire Lad 95
Langdale 162
Langdon Gilmore 94
Langton, Walter, & Son 61
Lassie 204
Lauderdale 40
Laurita 123
Launching, bow first 57, 199
Lavinia (jackass bk) 107
Lavinia (bk 1870) 147
Leech, John 41
Levebvre, A, shipbuilder 227
Lefurgey, John, shipbuilder 197
Lena, ex-Baron Colonsay 146
Leon Crespo 237
Leslie, Bradford 38
Leucadia 151
Lewes 80
Lewis M. Lamb 34
Lightning 44
Lima 238
Limari 238
Lindsay, J, carver 31, 56
Lindsay, W S, owner 31
L'Invention 188
Lion, at quay 110
Lisslie, H W, plans 84, 90, 215
Little Minnie, ex-Minnie, sailing 209
Liverpool, ships sold at 13, 48
Liverpool Shipbuilding Co 114, 117
Livingstone 96
Lizzie Iredale 238
Lizzie Webber, under sail 77
SS Llanelly 207
Llewellyn 239
Lloyd's Register, classification system, 14,
   80; Visitation Committee 36, 41, 57,
   62
Lloyd's Register, Report on 'Dismasting'
   143, 145, 177, 182, 184-89; NB cover
   of book bears title 'Report on Masting'
Loch Ard 182; at anchor 182
Loch Maree 140, 182
Loch Ness 140
Loch Tay 138; deck scenes 140
Lochee 133
Locomotive 78
London, shipbuilding 39-40, 167
Lord Clyde 239
Lord Howe 95
Lord of the Isles 225
Lothair, at quay 230
Loudoun Castle 138
Louisa Shelbourne 112
Lubbock, Basil, comments 29, 161; quoted
   84, 143, 164
Lubentia 85
Lucerne 237
Lucille, hove down 172
Lufra 154
Lune Shipbuilding Co 164
Lungley, Charles, shipbuilder 40
Lydia Cardell 225
Lyman, John 44, 187, 189, 202

M

Mabel Young 82
MacBeath, George 50
MacCunn, James, owner 145, 160
MacDonell, Capt C 53
McKay, Donald, clippers 44, 189; medium
   clippers 45, 175, 177; packets 45-46;
   shipyard 43
McLean, Duncan, reporter 42-45
MacMillan & Son, shipbuilders 145
Macquarie, ex-Melbourne photographed 167;
   under sail 69, 71, 170
Madcap 218
Maggie Trimble 238
Maha Ranee 36
Mahanada 163
Mairir Hahn, plans 140, 142
Maitland, clipper 157
Majestic 163
Malacca 238
Mansfield 157



Marco Polo, deaths aboard 13; hull-form
   47, 51-52; lines 48; lithograph.....
   passages 48, 53, 55
Margaret (snow 1835) 204
Margaret (sch 1866) 207
Margaret Porter 94; costs 96
Margaret Potter 80
Margaretha 105, 106
Maria (bk 1842), at Bristol 19
Maria (bk c1870) 229
Maria (bk 1875), under sail 127
Marie Ange 207
Marlborough 67
Marpesia, described 143; half-model
   140, 142, 143
Marshall 189
Marshall, George, owner 139
Martell, B, surveyor 143, 187
Martha Fisher 239
Martaban 34
Martinet 90
Mary (bg 1831), cut down 195
Mary (sch 1853) 73
Mary [or Mary Ann] (bk 1863) 83
Mary (smack 1875), hull-form 97, 232-33;
   lines and deck plan 231, 233; sail plan
   232, 233; under sail 231
Mary & Gertrude, at Bridgewater 200 or 299
Mary Ann Bruford 41
Mary Ann Wilson 36
Mary Anne, at quay 110
Mary Celeste, ex-Amazon 79
Mary Lord, sail plan 42, 84-85, 85, 101 or 107
Mary Moore 238
Mary Stockton 106
Mastiff 45
Masts, see Spars
Matchless 107, 227
Matilda Wattenback 123
Mathilde 227-28
Maudslay, Sons & Field 40
Maulsden 133-34
May, shipbuilder 195
May Cory, at Bristol 226
Maypocho 117
Meadows, shipbuilder 108
Meadus, Thomas, shipbuilder 195
Medium clippers, American 42-44, 174
Medusa 157; under sail 161
Melbourne 67, 123, 167
Mercantile Marine Act 16
Merchant Shipping Act 16
Merlin 207
Mermerus 140; lines plan 142; sail area 189
Mersey flats 234
Metcalf, J, shipbuilder 207
Metero, cost 217, 237; hull-form, 217; lines
   and deck plans 220; listed 82; sail plan
   105, 219; sail plan as 2-topsail
   schooner 217, 219; shell expansion
   plan 220
Mexico 82, 236
Miller, W C, shipbuilder 167
Millom Castle, described 211; hulk 211;
   lines plan 213; lines taken off 211, 211;
   painting 213; plans 90; sail plan 211,
   213
Millwall Ironworks & Shipbuilding Co
   167
Miltiades 151
Mineira 237
Minna-Cords 128
Minnehaha 45
Minnie (sch 1866) 209-210
Minnie (bkn 1875) 225
Miriam 192
Mirliton 227-229
Misti 122
Mistletoe 217
Mitchell, Capt T 151
Mitredale 162
Mofussilite, cost 237; hull-form 130; plans
   125
Monsoon 80
Morgan, D W 98
Morning Light 47, 49-50
Morning Star, at Bristol 49, 50
Mounsey & Foster 154
Munn, J & Co 191

N

Napier, R, & Sons, shipbuilders 27-28, 167
SS Narwhal 21
Natal Queen, under sail, frontispiece, 206
National Maritime Museum, ship plans at
   10, 20, 36, 53, 113, 125, 163, ?
   Upham's models 221
Navigation Acts 9, 14, 16
Nellie 227; painting 228

254

Nelson, Ismay & Co 82
Nepaulese Ambassador 42
Neptune's Car 218
Neptunus, lines and sail plans 74
Nourse, James 146, 148, 157
New Express 32
New Rambler 88
SS New York 29
Newton, 237
Newton's 'Dale Line', 162
Nicholson, Benjamin, ships listed 157;
   ships described 157, 160, 190, 209
Nickels, shipbuilder 200
Nielson, Christian 74
Niobe 240
Nevill, Richard 206
Nevill, William H, shipbuilder in iron 11,
   206-207, 225, 228
Nonpareil 217, 220-21
Nordstern, in dry dock 125
Norham Castle 238
Norval 182
Novelty 10

O

Oasis 113
Oberon 80
Ocean, under sail 127
Ocean King 175, 189
Ocean Monarch (S 1847) 46
Ocean Monarch (S 1854) 51
Ocean Monarch (S 1856) 46; plans 46
Ocean Ranger 225
Ocean Rover 157
Oliver, Edward 14
Oliver Cromwell 207
Omba 237
Orange Grove, deck layout 205; lines and deck layout 118, 238; under sail 139
Orilla 157
Orient 40
Orientale 11
Oronsay, ex-Slieve Donard 38
Orpheus 240
Orwell, described 65-66
Osburgha, cost 239; listed 82; described
   223; sail plan 223, 224; section and decks, 225
Osler, Adrian G 34
Osprey 102
Oswald, shipbuilder 154
Otago 238
Otaki, becalmed 160
Ottawa, sail plan 219
Ottawa River Co 138
Outfit, Baltic 21-22; East India 22, 24; see
   also 'Hull and Spars'
Overend, Gurney & Co 132, 157
Over-loading 182
Over-masted ships 185

P

Pacific 237
Palm oil trade 83-84
Palmer & Co, shipbuilders 160
Panmure 133, 239; sail plan 135
SS Paou Shun 80
Parana 41
Parkland Forge Co 22
Parramatta 67, 71
Parsee (bk 1851) hull-form 32, 34, 42, 80;
   plans 32
Parsee (S 1868) 239
Parson jnr, shipbuilder 140
Patey, Capt C 14
Patterdale 161
Patriarch 151
Paulsen, J, shipbuilder 127
Pearl (sch 1867) 192
Pearl ('pro tem') 90
Pegasus, iron masts 154
Peile, Scott & Co, shipbuilders 36
Pembroke Castle 236
Penair 207
Pendragon Castle, at Calcutta 145
Penney, R H 102
Pestorijee Bomanjee 61
Petchelee, plan described 27, 34, 192
Peter sail plan 74, 74
Peter Denny 148
Peter Stuart, at anchor 184
Preston, Edmund, owner 23-24, 39
Preston, Frederick, 23, 64
Phantom 100
Phoenician 34
Phoenix, sail plan 215, 216
Phillips, shipbuilder 195
Pickersgill, William, & Sons 30
Picton Castle 239
Pile, John, shipbuilder 30-31, 157; bust 159



Pile, Spence & Co 157
Pile, Thomas 30
Pile, W & J, shipbuilders 31
Pile, William, jnr, builds Blackwall
   Frigates 52-54; half-models 156-57;
   ships listed 1857-74 Appendix III;
   ships of 1850s 30-31; ships of 1860s
   1857
Pile, William, snr 30-31
Pile & Hay 31, 157
Pilkington & Wilson 14, 47
Pilot Fish, topmasts visible 153
Pinney, Richard 32-33
Pitcher, W & H 40
Plans, see Draughtsmanship
Planter, hull-form 203-204
Plimsoll, Samuel 16
Pio Benito 216
Polmaise 20-21
Pomona 239
Porritt, J W 78
Potter, W H similar ships 162; number
   built 117; shipbuilder 167, 228
Potter & Hodgkinson, see Potter, W H
Potts, W & Sons 49
Premier 207
Prices, cabins in 1853, 53; see also Costs
Pride of Torridge 91-92, 92
Primera 239
Prince Alfred 148; on the stocks 151
Prince of the Seas 47
Prinz Albert 11
Prowse, Joshua 42
Purton, under sail 209

Q

Quadroon 207
Queen (S 1847) 48
Queen (ketch by 1860) 234
Queen Alexandra 103
Queen of Clippers 218
Queensberry 157
Quiggin, William 36, 38, 113

R

Rachel 207
Rajah of Sarawak 42
Rajmahal 36
Railway Pier, Sandridge 12
Ralston 239
Ramsay, David, shipbuilder 202
Rankine, Prof W J M 114-15, 117, 163
Ravenscrag 239
Ravensworth, deck fittings described 33-34, 
   37; perspectives of these 33
Raymond 197, 202
Red Gauntlet 239
Red Rose 95-96
Red Riding Hood 40
Reed, J, shipbuilder 59
Refuge 217
Reichstag 237
Reid, John, & Co, shipbuilder 29, 140,
   143
Reiherstieg, shipbuilders 123
Reindeer 154
Renault, L, artist 228
Rennie, Johnson & Rankine 39
Requiter 80
Result 95
Reuter & Ihms, shipbuilders 227
Reverie 239
Rhoda 202
Rhoda Mary, fast schooner 233; hull-form
   88, 97, 211; lines plan 211, 213;
   painting 215; sail plan 211, 215;
   section, deck & bulwarks 215
Rhone, ex-Gilroy, stranded 148
Rice, Richard, on Canadian ships 47-48
Richard Cobden 39
Richard Dart 80
Richardson, shipbuilder 228
Rickmers, R C, shipbuilders 123
Rigging, chain 98; flying jib halliards 229;
   head gear of ship 186; rigging screws
   189, 189; table of sizes, 57, Appendix
   V
Rigs, big sloops converted into schooners
   231, 233; brig popular 73; confusion
   over schooner 87-88; brigs versus
   schooners 74; early barquentines 88;
   snow or brig 192; see also separate
   entries for each rig
Rival 108, 111, 229
River Wear, Sunderland 76
Riviere 207
Robert Bright 41
Robert Caldwell 94
Robert Henderson 148
Robertson, W, draughtsman 22, 61



Robinson, steering gear 50
Robinson Cruses, painting 169
Rodger's anchor 26
Rodney 157; in dry dock 158
Rogers, Inkerman 107
Rohilla 237
Roller-reefing 29
Romanoff 151
Rona 238
Roodee, painting 169
Roof, building under 29, 80
Rooparell 182
Rose Bud, painting 200
Roseneath 28
Roxburgh Castle, ex-King Richard, hull-form
   31, 53, 55; lines plan 53
SS Royal Charter 36, 38
Royden, T, & Sons 117, 167
Ruddock, F & J, shipbuilders 50
Russell, Clark, quoted 100
Russel, J Scott 167
Rydal Hall 182
Rydalmere 161

S

Sabrina 228
Sails, all roller-reefing 29; baleston topsails
   86, 123, 227-28; early double
   topgallants 143; early double topsails
   37-38, 79, 118; Forbes' topsails 79; 4
   jibs 59-60; Howes' topsails 38, 46, 50,
   79; lower stunsail 65, 92, 98; moonsail
   47, 154; on schooners 98, 100; prices
   for barquentines 225; ringtail 136,
   153; roller-reefing topgallants 147;
   roller-reefing topsails 193; sail areas
   compared 189; schooner's topgallant
   100; staysails 4-sided 196-97, 199;
   stunsails in 1870s 136, 175, 188
Sail plans, barquentines 221-23, 225-26;
   brigantines 196-97; cut down 143, 195;
   draughtsmanship 73-74; drawn by
   Stephen's 130; Stephen's too small
   162; terns 100, 102
Sailmakers drew plans 215, 225
Saint John, shipbuilders at 47-50
St Hilda 14
St Kilda 238
St Lawrence, and brig 199; hull-form 66-67;
   photograph 66, 67; plans 66
St Paul deck scene 179; fitting out 172; hell
   ship 175; under sail 181
Salamander 90
Salamis 151
Salisbury, William, 94, 96-97
Saltash Bridge 87, 89, 100
Saluto ex-Minna-Cords, ashore 128
Samuel Lawrence 44
Samuel Plimsoll 151
Samuelson, shipbuilder 39
San Francisco in 1853, 11
San Lorenzo 113
Sanders, Thomas, designer 204
Santa Claus 45
Sarah (bk 1862) described 195; dried out
   195
Sarah (bk 1871), under sail 174
Sarah Neumann 40-42
Sarah Nicholson 157
SS Sarah Sands 39
Sarah Smeed 231
Saxon Maid 95
Schenley, G A, photographer, 161
Schomberg 36, 42, 52
Schomberg, Charles F 14
Schooners, defined 87-88, 92, 107; design
   87-94, 209-16; early 3-masted 100,
   102; largest 2-masters in USA 94;
   Mevagissey plan 211, 215; odd
   5-masted 89; popular after 1870, 210;
   square sails rare in USA 215-16;
   un-named 91; word hides other rigs
   87, 107
Science Museum, models, 143, 222; plans
   32, 76, 79-80, 88, 90, 223
Scott, J E, shipbuilder 145, 147; portrait
   146
Scott, John, & Sons 29
SS Sea King 22, 131
Sea Mew 192
Sea Queen 19, 21; cost 236; launch 22; plans
   20
Seaforth 113, 114
Sebire, James 100
Seminole, at wharf 176
Semple, J, artist 27
Sensation, sail plan 197, 220
Seringapatam 53
Severn 236
Shakspere 157



Shandon 29, 138
Sharp, Thomas C 157
Shenir, sail plan 136, 161-62
Shepherd, Joseph 86, 192
Shepherd & Leech, shipbuilders 85-86,
   190, 192, 225; ships listed 192
Shipbuilding, at Sunderland 29-31;
   boom-and-slump 14, 16-17, 30;
   conversion of timber 59, 61; in
   America 42-46, 113, 172, 174-75, 197,
   202, 216; in Canada 13, 42, 47-51,
   78-79, 113, 172, 175, 197, 202; in
   France 123; in Holland 123-24, 202; in
   Germany 123-25; in West Country
   40-42; largest ships in wood 45-46, 50;
   materials available after 1860, 113; on
   River Clyde 20-29; on River Thames
   39-40; on River Tyne 31-32; on
   speculation 40-41, 48; records
   preserved 10; weight of materials 22;
   see also Iron Construction, Wood
   Construction
Shuttle 42
Siemens-Martin, steel 10, 113
Silver Lining 217
Silver Stream 218
Silvercraig 239
Silverhow 161
Simons, William, & Co 29
Simpson, Matthew, shipbuilder 209; costs
   listed 95-96, 98; schooners listed 94-96
Singapore 238
Sir Lancelot 239
Sir William Wallace 148
Size, American schooners 216; average in
   'home trade' 72-73; not determined by
   rig 87; ships and barques under 300
   tons, 202
Slieve Donard, in dry dock 38
Sloman, R M, shipowner 136
Sloops, large 232-33
Slyboots 107, 225
Smacks; see Barges, Rigs
Smeed, shipbuilder 231
Smith, Capt J quoted 28, 196, 196
Smith, George, owner 131
Smith, George, & Sons 23, 106, 138, 147;
   development of firm 131-32
Smith, James, shipbuilder 47
Smith, Robert, owner 131
Smith, Samuel, photographer 196
Smith, T & W 52, 66-67, 85
Smith, 'Yankee', shipbuilder 151
Smith &  Co, shipbuilders 38
Smith & Rodger, shipbuilders 28
Snapdragon 46
Soblomsten, at anchor 171
Sobraon 67, 114
Solitt, shipbuilder 231
Solway Queen 190, 193
Somes, Frederick, 63
Somes, J & F, 23; ships ordered or bought
   from Stephen's 21, 59, 61-65
Somes, Joseph 59, 61
Somes, Mullins & Co 63
Somes, Samuel 63
Somes, Brothers: see Somes, J & F
Sophie Joakim 157
Sorabjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy 118

Southwick 157
Sovereign of the Seas 175
Spars, all iron 167; on American schooner
   216; fidded royal masts 151, 154;
   lower and topmast in one piece 151,
   164; longest mainyards 45-46, 145,
   164; masting rules 187; mast settles
   184; outrigger boom 59, 128; sliding
   gunter masts 46, 107, 138, 154;
   stunsail booms 66; telescopic jibboom
   59-60; telescopic topgallant masts 151
Specification of Edmund Preston 23-24,
   26-27
Speculation, ships built on 31, 40-41, 48,
   80-81
Speedy 40
Spence, Joseph, shipbuilder 157
Spencer, R B, artist 105
Spicer, Stanley, quoted 47
Spitfire 47
Spring Bird 197
Spritsail barges, development 229; hull
   and sail plan 229
Staffordshire 113
Star of Bengal, in harbour 164
Star of Empire 44
Star of India (S 1861) 59, 62-63
Star of India, ex-Euterpe (S 1863), mast and
   deck details 166


255

Star of Peace 41
Star of the East 50
Statistics, composite constuction 12;
   dismasted ships 1873-74, 182; jackass
   barques listed 227-28; Liverpool
   builders 117; numbers of sailing ships
   built 17; Sunderland building 30;
   tonnage registered 1830-70, 14; vessels
   under 300 tons built 1875, 202
Steam competition 16-17, 20
Steel construction 113-14, 117
Steele, James 147
Steele, Robert, & Co 228; build 'City Line'
   ships 132, 147; shipyard history 29,
   147
Steers, George 100
Stephen, Alexander, & Sons, build
   Blackwall frigates 52, 55, 59-65; build
   Edmund Preston 23-27, 39, 82; build
   medium clippers 130, 136; buy
   Linthouse estate 125, 133; contract
   with Preston 23-24, 39; development
   of firm 20-21, 124-25; first composite
   ship 132; last composite ship 167;
   letter on sail plan 161-62; obtain
   timber 57, 61; plans survive 10, 20, 82,
   102, 113, 125, 130; ships of 1850-60
   described 19-23; ships of 1860-75
   described 124-25, 130-37; small sail
   areas 162; vessels of under 350 tons
   listed 82, 205, 217, 233; ways of 
   obtaining orders 21-23
Stephen, A, jnr, carves half-models 213,
   215; comments on Hall's ships 154; his
   diary 60-61; recommends Glasgow 49;
   takes over Glasgow yard 20-21, 124;
   travels in search of orders 21-22, 63
Stephen, A, snr 19-20, 124-25; buys teak
   61
Stephen, James 20-22, 24
Stephen, John 21, 124
Stephen, William 20-21, 125
Stephens, Hugh E, builder 232-33
Stephens, John, builder 211, 233
Stevens, John R, author 48
Stewart Rees, W 117
Storm Cloud 21, 23, 130, 236
Stour 112
Stowage, incorrect 185
Strathearn 140
Stuart Hahnemann 46, 145
Suez Canal, 15-17, 133, 136
Sunderland, shipbuilders 29-32
Superb 55, 67
Superior, under sail 147
Susan Howland, described 42-43
Susanna 85
Sussex Maid 80
Swarthmore 31-32
Sweden, ship design 118-19
Sydenham 238
Szymanski, Hans, author 105


T

Taeping 239
Talisman, ex-Cursetjee Furdoonjee 169



Tantallon Castle 239
Teazer (bg 1858), close-hauled 193;
   described 195
Teazer ('pro tem') 90
Tern schooners, 100, 102
The Caliph 139
Thessalus 140; at anchor 141; plans of spars
   142
Thermanthus 217
Thermopylae 151, 205
Thomas 85
Thomas, F H, shipbuilder 41
Thomas Blythe 38
Thomasina MacLellan 145; at anchor 145
Thompson, George, owner 151
Thompson, Joseph L, & Sons 157
Thompson, Robert, & Sons 30;
   half-models 156-57; ships described
   157
Thompson, Robert, jnr, 30, 167
Thomson, James and George 28
Three Brothers, ex-PS Vanderbilt 175
Thule, bows 216
Ticonderoga 13
Tien-tsin 227
Tiger 80
Titania, tea clipper 27
Tocopilla 237
Todd & MacGregor 29, 132
Tom Duff 153
Tonges & Co, brokers 13
Tonnage of Sail and Steam 17
Torbay Lass 218
Torrens
Towy 207
Trafalgar 65-66
Train, Enoch, & Co 42
Transit (1800) 89
Trojan 29
Tromso, under sail 73
Trotman's anchor, 26
Trout C S, artist 215
Trow, described 112, 233-34
True Briton, lithograph 69
Trusty, painting and photograph, 191
Tuh Shing 239
Tweedsdale 189
Tweedside 78-79; on ship 78
Twilight 28
Two-topsail schooners, 105, 217; sail plan
   102
Tyburnia, compared to other ships 22-23,
   53, 55; cost 56, 61, 236; design 61-62;
   framing plans 61; hull-form and its
   influence 23-24, 61-62, 64; sail plan
   62; wooden constuction 21, 61
SS Tynemouth 31
Typhoon, iron clipper 21, 60, 236

U

Ulcoats 113
Uller, ez-Amber Witch 227
Ullock 154
Ulrichs, H F, shipbuilder 123
Umgeni, drying sails 153
Underley, wrecked 164



Union, hull-form compared 86, 88, 90, 107,
   221; lines plan 221, 222; rigging sizes
   222, Appendix V; sail plan 106, 
   222-23, 224
Unity, painting 228
Upham, J & W A, costs 218, 220;
   half-model 222; hull-form 220-21;
   vessels described 217-18, 220-21, 225;
   use of moulds 218
Uranie 123
Utrecht 11

V

Valentine 94
Valentine and Helene 238
Valin, T, shipbuilder 227
PS Vanderbilt 175
Vanguard 29
Vaux, shipbuilder 112
Vencedora, ready for launching 156
Velocity 157
Venn, JJ, carver 98
Vernon, T & Son, builders 38, 117
Via 218
Victoria Cross 113
Vigilant (bg 1853) 196
Vigilant (bkn 1877) 226
Vimeira 55-56
Virginia 238
Vivian, shipbuilder 101
Volcalist 42
Volante, lines and sail plans 79


W

W S Lindsay 31
Walker, William, shipbuilder 40
Wallace, F W, quoted 47, 50-51
Wallis, T 78
Walpole, Webb & Bewley 163
Walter Baine 239
Walter Raleigh 94
Walter Ulrich 98
Walters, Samuel, artist 27
Wanata 13
Ward, William, artist 34
Warren, C W, photographer 49
Warrior HMS, 189
Wasdale, compared 161-62
Waterloo (sch c1855) 87
Waterloo (S 1863) 113
Waterwitch, rig altered 195
Watjen, D H, & Co, owners 136
Watkins 80
Wave (sch 1864) 85
Wave (trow 1867) hull-form 234; lines plan
   233, 234
Wave of Life, at Sydney 28
Wave Queen 236
Waverley 239
Wear, F, photographer 141
Webb, Eckford 101
Webb, William H, hull-form used 46;
   packet design 42; plans published 10,
   46, 172
Welcome 218
Wennington, fitting out 164



Weser Shipbuilding Co 123
Westacott, John, ships named 41, 225
Whalers 21
Whirlwind 21, 59
White, J & R, shipyard 9
White, William, shipbuilder 211
White Eagle 21, 23, 59, 236
White Star 50
White Star Line 14, 47
Whitehaven brig, identification 190,
   192-3, 192, 193 195
Whitehaven Public Library & Museum
   163, 190, 192, 195, 225
Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co, build
   barquentines 225; 9 ships listed 161-63
Whitehead, shipbuilder 200
Wigram, Money & Sons 40, 53
Wild Dayrell 102
Wild Wave 202; under sail 203
Wilhelmine 123
William Davie, cost 237; lines and deck
   plans 129, 131; sail plan 130, 130, 131
William Duthie 148
William E Clowes 216
William F Frederick 216
William Shepherd 95
Williamson, Hugh, shipbuilder 190
Willy, 123
Willmett, shipbuilder 209
Wilson & Chambers 50
Windlass, Armstrong patent 129; see also
   Deck fittings
Windsor Castle (S 1857) 54
Windsor Castle (S 1869) 148; cabin plan 151
Wisbech, schooner and brigs 103, 196
Witch of the Wave 44
Wolgart, lines and sail plans 73-74, 74
Wood, Henry & Co 24
Wood construction, clinker build 92;
   conversion of timber 57, 59, 61; largest
   British ships 21, 52; large American
   ships 45-46; last ships built in Great
   Britain 151; ratio of timber used 61;
   softwood ships 13, 52; vessels
   lengthened 91-92, 100
Woolrich, Col 41
Woodside 92
Woodville 86
Woosung 236
Workington & Harrington Shipbuilding
   Co 36
Wright, W & R, shipbuilding 47-50

Y Z

Yang-tsze 154

Zebina Goudey 228
Zebra 100, 102
Zephyr (S 1855) 45
Zephyr (bkn 1869) 223
SS Zeta 131
Ziba, called 'schooner' 87, 107; cost 107;
   listed 227; sail plan 106, 107, 227
Zircon 82, 236
Zodiac 41
Zohrab 141

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