Fullriggeren (Klipper) "MERMERUS" ved Chr-Sand (Randøy?) 1909 x 3 (SKU_13997)
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THE IRON HULLED WOOL CLIPPER MERMERUS, BUILT FOR A. & J.H. CARMICHAEL'S GOLDEN FLEECE LINE, GREENOCK, BY BARCLAY, CURLE & CO., GLASGOW, 1872
Considered a remarkably fine vessel with excellent sailing properties and beautiful lines, she was deemed worthy enough for inclusion in Basil Lubbocks' Romance of the Clipper Ships published in 1930 and was even used by his collaborator Jack Spurling for the frontispiece. Registered at 1750 tons gross, she measured 264.2 feet long with a 39.8 feet beam and depth of 23.7 feet. Given an exceptionally high rig, her three masts carried 35,000 yards of sail - about 3300 more than the four-masted County of Peebles built by the same yard. Over fifty feet longer than Cutty Sark, she was proportionally slim and a crack sailer when given her legs recording crossings from Gravesend to Melbourne of 66 days in 1876 and 71 days from Melbourne to the Lizard in 1872. In 1898 she was sold on and by 1900 was in the possession of Robert Mattsson of Mariehamn. On the 8th December 1909 Mermerus left Fredrikshald bound for Melbourne with a cargo of timber when, three days later, she ran aground off Ranö, 12 nautical miles from Kristiansand in dense fog. During efforts to refloat her she lost her foremast and, when finally freed, it was only her cargo which kept her afloat. Uneconomic to repair, she was sold in 1910 for breaking. Her house flag from the Golden Fleece Line is preserved in the Royal Museum, Greenwich.
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