File:Richard B. Spencer - The Clipper Harriet McGregor.jpg

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Richard Ball Spencer: The Clipper Harriet McGregor   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Richard Ball Spencer  (1812–1897)  wikidata:Q21155029
 
Alternative names
Richard Ball Spencer‎, Richard Barnett Spencer‎, Richard B. Spencer
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 11 November 1812 Edit this at Wikidata between April 1897 and June 1897
date QS:P,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1897-04-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1897-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
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Location of birth/death St Pancras Edit this at Wikidata West Ham Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1840 Edit this at Wikidata–1880 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q21155029
Title
The Clipper Harriet McGregor
label QS:Len,"The Clipper Harriet McGregor"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1878
date QS:P571,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 46.4 cm (18.2 in); width: 76.2 cm (30 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,46.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,76.2U174728
Inscriptions signed 'R.B. Spencer' (lower left) and inscribed and dated 'Harriet McGregor A.S. Leslie Commander 1878' (centre)
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One of the most famous of the so-called "colonial clippers", the Harriet McGregor was designed and built by John McGregor at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1871. Rigged as a barque and registered at a mere 331 tons, she measured 134 feet in length with a 27½ foot beam and was owned jointly by her builder and his brother. Originally intended for the inter-Colonial trade, her owners decided to put her onto the London run before she was even launched and she proved an instant success. Stoutly constructed from blue gum laid on iron frames, London's shipowners declared her "a splendid piece of [marine] architecture" when she arrived in the Thames after her maiden voyage and her master, Captain Richard Copping, wrote to tell her owners in glowing terms how well she had handled on her first passage.

Apart from her acknowledged speed which, particularly after her round-the-world dash with another Tasmanian barque, the Berean, brought her considerable acclaim, she was also noteworthy for the remarkable regularity of her passage times over almost two decades. Year after year, she followed an annual pattern of sailings beginning each Christmas Day when she left Hobart bound for London loaded with wool and sperm oil. Returning to Hobart with general cargo, she would then run across to Mauritius with coal, pick up her regular cargo of sugar and be back in Hobart in good time to get away again on the Christmas tide to London. In the fifteen years, 1871-85, that she folowed this routine, Harriet McGregor sailed a total of 535,529 miles to schedules which were not only the envy of many steamship lines but were also uncannily consistent for any wind-driven ship. Sold to Danish owners in 1896, they began running her to South America but her new career was cut short when she caught fire and burnt in Rio de Janeiro harbour soon afterwards.[1]
  1. ↑ Christie's
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 1777034 (sale 8755, lot 407, London, 11 May 2000)

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