Category: Blackwall (1850)

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Clipper ship : 838 Tons

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The BLACKWALL was one of the Blackwall Line of Packet Ships

BLACKWALL, 838t, wood clipper, built in 1850 at Green's Blackwall Yards for his Blackwall Line. In the London-Australia trade for seventeen years. In records up to 1860, she is recorded as visiting Melbourne each year from 1852 to 1860; and in South Australian records up to 1866, as visiting Adelaide in 1860 and 1861. In 1867, she was repaired and transferred to the India trade where she made three voyages In 1870 she was sold and put in the Java trade. In 1875, she was converted to Barque rig. In 1884, she was wrecked at Morecombe Bay on Britain's South Coast.

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