Wylo (clipper)
A picture of Wylo | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Wylo |
| Owner | Killick Martin & Company |
| Builder | Robert Steele & Company, Greenock |
| Launched | 15 April 1869 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Owner | William Ross, London |
| Acquired | 1886 |
| Canada | |
| Owner | James Ross, Quebec |
| Cost | £2375 |
| Acquired | 1886 |
| Fate | Beached 1886 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Composite clipper |
| Tonnage | 829 NRT |
| Length | 192.9 ft (58.8 m) |
| Beam | 32.1 ft (9.8 m) |
| Depth | 20.2 ft (6.2 m) |
Wylo a composite clipper was built by Robert Steele & Company, Greenock, and launched on 15 April 1869. Robert Steele & Company also built the famous clippers Ariel and Taeping who took part in the great tea race of 1866, and Sir Lancelot another renown clipper ship.
Wylo was the 174th and last vessel to be built by Robert Steele & Company. She was 192.9 ft in length, had a beam of 32.1 ft, a depth of 20.2 feet and measured 829 Gross register tons.
The Figurehead of Wylo still exists in the Fries Scheepvaart Museum in Sneek, the Netherlands. Item number FSM-J-122. A multi-colour painted image of a Moor with skirt and bared upper body. The head of the Moor is adorned with a turban. In the ears earrings. The pedestal is decorated with a spiral and leaf and diamond motifs. A finger has been broken off the right hand. The name Wylo is derived from Chinese, it would mean 'speed'.