Fychow in company

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James Brereton, 20th Century
Fychow in company
signed 'James Brereton' (lower right) and inscribed as title on the reverse
oil on canvas
30 x 40in. (76.2 x 101.7cm.)

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Lot Essay

Built by Alexander Hall & Sons at Aberdeen, Fychow was a medium wooden clipper launched in 1863. Registered at 710 tons, she measured 180 feet in length with a 31½ foot beam and cost 15,785. Although ordered by Duncan Dunbar of London, Dunbar himself died before she was completed and the finished vessel was bought by Gellatly, Hankey & Sewell, also of London, Whilst no record breaker, Captain Matthews nevertheless brough her home from Shanghai in a perfectly creditable 128 days in her first year (1864) and slightly improved this to 120 days the following season. Withdrawn from the tea trade after these two runs, she disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic in 1867 whilst on passage from New York to London with a cargo of barley.

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