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|Ship name= ''Lammermuir''
|Ship namesake= [[Lammermuir Hills]]
|Ship owner= [[Jock Willis Shipping Line|J&R Dunbar Willis]]
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|Ship builder= [[William Pile (shipbuilder)|Pile]], Spence & Co, [[West Hartlepool]]
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|Ship launched= 23 July 1864
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|Ship identification= *UK [[official number]] 50192
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|Ship type= Tea [[clipper]]
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'''''Lammermuir''''' was an extreme [[clipper]] ship built in 1864 by [[William Pile (shipbuilder)|Pile]], Spence and Company of [[West Hartlepool]] for [[Jock Willis Shipping Line|John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son]], [[London]]. She was the second ship to bear the name. The first {{ship||Lammermuir|1856 clipper|2}} had been the favorite ship of John Willis, and was wrecked in the [[Gaspar Strait]] in 1863.

==Building==
''Lammermuir'' was built at Swanson Dock in West Hartlepool, launching her on 23 July 1864 and completing her on 2 February 1865.<ref name=WBS>{{cite web |url= http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=168787 |title=Lammermuir |work=Wear Built Ships |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref> She had an iron hull. Her registered length was {{cvt|200.4|ft|abbr=on}}, her beam was {{cvt|35.5|ft|abbr=on}}, her depth was {{cvt|20.9|ft|abbr=on}} and her [[tonnage]] was {{NRT|1054}}.<ref>{{cite book |year=1866 |title=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping |publisher=[[Lloyd's Register]] |at=LAM |via=[[Internet Archive]] |url= https://archive.org/details/HECROS1866/page/n458/mode/1up |access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref> She had three masts and was a [[full-rigged ship]].

Willis [[Ship registration|registered]] the ship at [[Port of London|London]]. Her UK [[official number]] 50192 was and her [[code letters]] were HCVW.<ref>{{cite book |year=1871 |title=Mercantile Navy List |page=199 |via=Crew List Index Project |url= https://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/viewimages?year=1871&name=Lammermuir&page=280&steamsail=Sail&gotopage=next |access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref>

==Career==
''Lammermuir'' was designed for the China [[tea]] trade. In 1866 she was almost wrecked in the [[East China Sea]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] by two [[typhoon]]s. Her [[Master mariner|Master]] was [[Sea captain|Captain]] M Bell, and she carried the famous [[Lammermuir Party]] of 18 missionaries and four children of the [[OMF International|China Inland Mission]] outbound to China, arriving in [[Shanghai]] on 30 September 1866.

[[Hudson Taylor]] recalled the most perilous time in the voyage:

{{blockquote|text=The appearance of things was now truly terrific. Rolling fearfully, the [[Mast (sailing)|masts]] and [[yard (sailing)|yards]] hanging down were tearing our only [[sail]]... and battering like a ram against the [[main yard]]. The deck from [[forecastle]] to [[poop deck|poop]] was one scarcely broken sea. The roar of the water, the clanging of chains, the beating of the dangling masts and yards, the sharp smack of the torn sails made it almost impossible to hear any orders that might be given.}}

In 1873 ''Lammermuir'' left London for [[Adelaide]], but without the all-important tool chest for her ship's carpenter. John Willis himself rushed to the docks to see to it that ''Orient'' could take the chest along and deliver it to the ship. The captain of ''Orient'' bet Willis that he would overtake ''Lammermuir'' before it crossed the Equator to transfer the chest at sea, which he did.<ref>Lubbock, 1921, p. 151</ref>

The clipper's last voyage was soon after this, from Adelaide to London on 10 November 1876. She never arrived, and was presumed to have been lost at sea.<ref name=WBS/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*Broomhall, Alfred James, (1983), ''Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century'', Volume Four: Survivors' Pact, London, [[Hodder & Stoughton]] and [[OMF International|Overseas Missionary Fellowship]] {{ISBN|9780340349229}}
* {{cite book |last= Lubbock |first= Basil |author-link= Basil Lubbock |year= 1921 |title= The Colonial Clippers |place= Boston |publisher= Charles E Lauriat}}
* Taylor, F Howard, & Taylor, Mrs, (1918), ''Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God'', Chapter 6, Morgan and Scott

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