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Belted Will | Official Number
47146 |
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Belted Will | Official Number
47146 |
The Liverpool Mercury, Saturday, 4th July 1863;
" SHIP LAUNCH AT WORKINGTON - On Thursday last, a fine
vessel was launched from the Harrington & Workington Shipbuilding
Company's yard at Workington, named Belted Will, burthen 907
yons o.m. and 863 n.m., for Messrs.Bushby & Edwrds, of Liverpool,
and being built under cover, classified A1 for 14 years, to be
commanded by Captain George Graham, late of the Banian, and previously of the Clymene (built by the same company), in which he sailed from Liverpool to the Hooghly in 80 days. The Belted Will
is ornamented by a full length figure of the noted border chieftain,
whose deeds, from his fastness at Naworth, have been the theme of story
as well as song, and was christened by Philip H.Howard, Esq., of Corby
Castle, late M.P. for Carlisle, a lineal descendant of the celebrated
Lord William Howard, alias Belted Will, amidst the hearty cheers of a
numerous concourse of spectators."
The Belted Will was a wooden full-rigged ship, with iron beams, built by J.T.Fell at Workington and launched on the 2nd July 1863. Bushby & Edwards, her owners, had bought many ships from this same Workington shipyard, Clymene being the eighth and followed by the Maha Ranee, Invincible, Banian, Kamehamena the Fourth, Corea, Dunmail, Volunteer and Melbreak. The Belted Will was a fast ship, perhaps the nearest of the Cumbrian-built clippers to the fastest of them all, Scawfell.
The Belted Will made her maiden voyage from Liverpool, leaving
on 24th September 1863. She arrived at Canton via Hong Kong on the 5th
January 1864, a voyage of 103 days.
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Sunday, 6th November 1870;
" The fine clipper ship Belted Will, A.Locke
commander, owned by Messrs.Bushby and Edwards, of Liverpool, has made a
quick passage of 99 days from China, being the quickest by several days
this season. She returns to Hong Kong immediately."
The Sydney Mail, 4th October 1873;
" Since the opening of the Suez Canal, and the employment
of screw steamers, the China sailing clippers have been ignored to a
great extent, and have had to seek freight for other ports. The Belted Will,
which arrived on 21st inst.from Liverpool, is an exemplification.
Hitherto this vessel has been engaged in the tea trade, and has made
her mark as a clipper, having beaten the acknowledged crack Sir Lancelot from China to London by six days. The Belted Will
is a fine wholesome craft of 812 tons register, carrying a large amount
of cargo, and has arrived in port in excellent order. With respect to
the passage from Liverpool we learn that she left on the 24th July, and
cleared the land on the 27th of the same month; she met with moderate
N.E.trades, and crossed the equator on the 21st August in longitude
31.15 W. The S.E.trades proved very adverse, hanging far to the
southward and forcing the ship over on the Brazilian coast, where she
was compelled to tack no less than four times, by which her voyage with
respect to a fast outward passage was at once destroyed. The S.E.trades
were virtually lost in latitude 21 S. The meridian of the Cape of Good
Hope was passed on 21st September, in latitude 43.8 S, and having ran
down her easting on a parallel of latitude 46 S, with the winds
prevailing from the N.W. and attended with much rain, rounded the S.W
Cape of Tasmania on the 15th instant, and since that date northerly
winds have prevailed. The Belted Will is a perfect clipper,
judging from present appearances, heavily sparred, and capable of
spreading a large amount of canvas. She comes to the consignment of
Messrs.Mason brothers.
The Belted Will continued in the China tea trade, her owners name being changed to Shaw, Bushby & Co. in 1880. Three years later she was bought by Anton Hulthen of Helsingborg, and ultimately she was broken-up at Nyhamn (May 1894) after stranding at Yttergrundet at Söderarm on the 2nd July 1893.
Voyages recorded in Source 1 include:
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