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Wythop | Official Number
94039 |
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Wythop | Official Number
94039 |
The Wythop was a steel barque built at the Ritson & Co. shipyard,
Maryport in July 1892. She was owned by Joseph Davidson & Son, of Maryport, owners at the time of the
Routenbeck.
The Wythop made her maiden voyage from Wapping Dock,
Liverpool, to San Francisco, arriving on the 16th January 1893, after a
passage of 141 days. She suffered a succession of calms, and made the
voyage in close association with
the 4-masted barque Milton Stuart, also on her maiden voyage.
The Wythop, under the command of Capt.S.P.Edwards, arrived at
Sydney on the 13th August 1893, from Vancouver with a cargo of rough
lumber. She had left Vancouver under tow on Thursday, 25th May. She
made sail the following day off Cape Flattery, then had good weather
for most of the journey, passing Samoa and Fiji, then had ten days of
gales off the Australian coast. She took a tug on the 13th May and was
towed into Sydney harbour, after a passage of 78 days. She seems to
have subsequently sailed to the West coast of South America (probably
with coal from Newcastle, NSW), then returned to the UK. She put into
Falmouth for orders, from Pisagua, on the 8th September 1894, then went
to Cuxhaven (Germany).
Captain Edwards died at sea aboard the Wythop on the 21st
August 1897, near the meridian of Cape Leeuwin, whilst on passage from
Port Natal to Port Pirie, South Australia. He had been suffering from
phthisis and asthma. At the request of his widow, who was aboard, the
ship's carpenter built a coffin, which was temporarily buried in the
ship's ballast and was taken to Port Pirie, where Captain Edwards was
interned.
The Wythop left London on the 16th July 1898 under the command of Capt.Mackay, bound for Melbourne. She had good weather until she got to the Indian Ocean, when successive storms forced her first to heave-to, then to run before the wind bare-masted. She arrived at Melbourne on the 3rd November 1898.
On the 16th February 1900 the barque arrived at Fremantle from New York (departed 29th October), still under the command of Capt.MacKay, but under the new name, Garrymount. She had been bought by Dundee owners, Robert Ferguson and Son, as the first vessel of their proposed "Mount Line". However, this project must have been abandoned as the barque was sold in February 1901 to Guisseppe D'Ali, of Trapani, of Sicily. She was again renamed, this time as Rosalina D'Ali.
It seems that the Rosalina D'Ali was hulked at New Orleans and then broken-up, in about 1934.
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