The ship Windhover
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Windhover |
Owner | Findlay & Co |
Builder | Connell and Co., Glasgow, Scotland |
Launched | January 1868 |
Completed | 1868 |
Maiden voyage | Glasgow to Liverpool, 1868 |
Homeport | Glasgow, Scotland |
Fate | Wrecked; Australia, 1889 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Clipper Ship |
Tonnage | 847 NRT[1] |
Length | 201.1ft[1] |
Beam | 34.0ft[1] |
Depth | 19.8 ft[1] |
Sail plan |
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Windhover was a British tea clipper built in the closing years of construction of this sort of ship. She measured 847 tons NRT. Like the majority of the tea clippers built in the second half of the 1860s, she was of composite construction. She was built by Connell and Co, Glasgow, Scotland in 1868.[1]