Windhover was a British tea clipper built in the closing years of construction of this sort of ship.

[1] After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1870, clipper ships were replaced with faster steamships in the transport of tea and other cargo.

[2] The Windhover traveled regularly to China, sailing to Shanghai, Foo-Chow, Yokohama and Hong Kong.

She was bought by Kerr & Co in 1881 and altered to a barque rig while working the Australian trade routes, hauling coal from western Australia to the eastern cities.

[3] August 1889, the Windhover wrecked off the coast of Australia on the Bramble Cay Reef.