DALLAM TOWERS

DALLAM TOWERS WAS AN IRON CLIPPER SHIP OF 1,499 TONS BUILT BY CLOVER & CO OF BIRKENHEAD AND LAUNCHED IN AUGUST OF 1866.THE WHITE STAR LINE CHARTERED HER FROM THE LANCASHIRE SHIPOWNERS CO AND SHE  SAILED FOR MELBOURNE IN JUNE 1869 WITH CAPTAIN RHIND IN COMMAND. ( SHE HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN ADVERTISED AS LEAVING FOR MELBOURNE IN MARCH )  

SHE  WAS ALSO CHARTERED TO SHAW SAVILL & CO  IN 1873 AND  LEFT LONDON BOUND FOR PORT CHALMERS. IN JULY OF 1873 NEAR KERGUELAN ISLAND SHE ENCOUNTERED HURRICANE FORCE WINDS, WHICH TOOK ONE OF HER YARDS AWAY . THE VESSELS MASTER CAPTAIN DAVIES TRIED TO HEAVE TO, BUT THE VESSEL ALL BUT CAPSIZED AND WENT RIGHT OVER ONTO HER SIDE, MAKING IT NECESSARY TO CUT AWAY THE MAST.THE VESSEL " CAPE CLEAR " CAME UPON HER A FEW DAYS LATER AND TOOK SOME OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD.DALLAM TOWER CONSTRUCTED A JURY RIG, AND THE MASTER WAS ABLE TO SAIL THE VESSEL TO MELBOURNE, NEARLY 2000 MILES AWAY.THE CAPTAIN WAS BLAMED FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAVE THE VESSEL TO, WHICH ALMOST CAUSED THE LOSS OF  THE VESSSEL COMPLETELY

THERE HAS BEEN REFERENCES TO HER BEING CALLED EITHER DALLAM TOWERS OR DALLAM TOWER, BUT I'M SURE IT'S ALL THE SAME VESSEL