Stornoway (clipper)

Stornoway was a British tea clipper built by Alexander Hall and Sons in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1850.

The details of the hull shape designed by Hall had this requirement in mind.

[1]: 35, 45, 53 She was named after Stornoway Castle, Lewis, one of the Hebrides Isles, owned by Sir James Matheson at the time.

She was wrecked at the mouth of the Thames in bad weather, 7 June 1873, on the Kentish Knock.

She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Villaricos, Spain carrying a cargo of coal and coke.