List of ships named Lalla Rookh

A 380-ton sailing vessel.^[1] Sailed first to Charleston on 1 September 1823, under Captain Hugh Stewart,^[2] and subsequently to Rio de Janeiro^[3] and other ports in Brazil.^[4] Also under Stewart she sailed to Sydney,^[5] Brisbane,^[1] Singapore,^[6] and Penang.^[7] On 5 June 1826, with Lalla Rookh described as "the fine new ship, burthen 400 tons",^[a] she sailed to Madras, Penang and Singapore under Stewart.^[8]

From 5 November 1827 she appears as travelling to Madras, Penang and Singapore under the command of Captain McCallum,^[9][10] before being wrecked on 6 March 1828 at Pondicherry under McCallum.^[11]

A wooden sailing vessel, 333 tons, built in 1825 by Thomas Metcalfe & Son in South Shields, "rigged as a Snow".^[12][b]

She sailed firstly under Captain B. R. Jones, initially between British North America, including Quebec and Miramichi, and Liverpool,^[13][14][15] and then (from 1828) in the Mediterranean.^[16][17]

From around 1831 Lalla Rookh sailed under Captain Green, with voyages to Mobile, Alabama, Alexandria, Virginia,^[18][19] New Orleans,^[20] Charleston,^[21][22] and Quebec.^[19]

She was wrecked near Wick, near the northern tip of mainland Scotland, on 11/12 April 1836,^[12][c] while sailing from Newcastle to Quebec.^[23]

A "new coppered and copper-fastened brig" of 284 tons burthen, advertised for freight or passengers for a voyage from Greenock to New Orleans by or on 1 June 1826.^[24] On 24 October 1826 she returned from New Orleans under Captain Kennedy.^[25][26]

A whaling ship,^[27] built Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 1835, active from New Bedford until at least 1853.^[28][29][30] Two masters were James Bassett and Owen Raymond.^[27] The ship was reported whaling in the New Zealand area from 1837 to 1848.^[31]

A barque, 372 tons, built in St Helier, Jersey, used to transport emigrants to the colony of South Australia, first sailing April 1840. Captains were Henry Kenney, then W. H. P. Haines. Sailed to San Francisco in May 1853.^[32] Last mentioned in Lloyd's Register in 1854.^[28]

A brig/clipper variously recorded as 184 tons^[33] and 147 tons,^[34] built in Peterhead, Scotland, Lalla Rookh was one of the "new Aberdeen clippers".^[35] She carried passengers, was used for trading among the Australian colonies,^[36] and later traded in the East Indies, Mauritius^[33] and Fiji. In the 1860s, voyages were recorded to the South Sea Islands^[37] and New Caledonia.^[38]

She was broken up in 1898 at Kerosene Bay in Sydney Harbour.^[34]

A smack, Lalla Rookh, assisted the US ship Trident after she ran aground on the Cork Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands to New York.^[39][40][d]

In November 1852 she towed the schooner Alcyon in to Harwich, Essex, after she was discovered abandoned in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent, England.^[40][41][e]

An iron hulled square-rigged tea clipper, built in 1856 in Liverpool, Lancashire, 869 tons. Owned by Prowse & Co. She sailed under the command of captains " Connibe'r" (Colliver?), Brown, Wilson, and Fullerton.^[42] Wrecked December 1873 at Prawle Point, Devon, returning to Britain fully laden with tea and tobacco. Her figurehead is preserved in the Cutty Sark museum in Greenwich, London.^[43]

• On 28 October 1859, the Danish schooner Ida collided with a ship named Lallah Rookh and sank at Liverpool. The sunken ship's crew were rescued and she was later refloated.^[44][45] (It has not been confirmed that this was the 1856 ship that was involved.)

A Canadian schooner, built 1859 in Oromocto, New Brunswick, 93 tons gross. Captains Crane, Freeman, Evans, Stinson and Smith, noted in directories until 1876.^[28]

Lalla Rookh, a barque of 487 tons, is registered in the 1874 edition of the American Lloyd’s Register of American and Foreign Shipping as having been built in 1864 in St John, Colony of New Brunswick, owned by Robert Blair, and under Captain Dakin.^[46]

The barque is mentioned in ships' directories from 1865 to 1900 under various captains, including John Sutherland (1873),^[47] and a three-masted sailing ship is depicted in an 1871 oil painting entitled "The Lalla Rookh of St. John N.B., Capt. John Sutherland Commander", by Joseph Semphill.^[48] Other captains mentioned in the ships' directories include A. Jackson, B. H. Hender, B. Melburn, G. N. Dakin, Feye, Henderson, and T. N. Hugo.^[47]

On 6 December 1875, Lalla Rookh ran into the Norwegian brig Falger, which sank in the English Channel 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Portland, Dorset, England, UK, with the loss of a crew member and survivors rescued by Lalla Rookh. Falger was on a voyage from Dublin (then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) to Fredrikstad in Norway.^[49]

Was built as a paddle-steamer with two engines, each 14hp, at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, New Zealand.^[50] She was launched on 5 August 1868 by Robert Stone (builder of PS Governor Wynyard, ss Black Diamond, Lulu, schooner, Active and Quickstep, cutters). Her 2 ft 9 in (0.84 m) draught allowed her to berth at Shortland. She was wooden, 80 ft (24 m) x 13 ft (4.0 m) x 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) and about 75 tons.^[51] On trial she reached 8.3 kn (15.4 km/h; 9.6 mph).^[52] In June 1876 R H Yeomans converted her from a paddle to a screw boat. Her old engine was fitted in a new paddle steamer^[53] and she was fitted with a Hawkeswood & Co. (Staffordshire Ironworks) single direct acting high-pressure engine of about 40 hp (30 kW), with a 12.5 in (320 mm) cylinder, of 12 in (300 mm) stroke and a 62 psi (430 kPa) 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) x 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) boiler. The hold was 36 ft (11 m).x 13 ft (4.0 m) x 7 ft (2.1 m), able to take about 50 tons.^[54] Reported broken up June 1876, but re-registered on 14 September 1876, with different tonnage, said to be built at North Shore, Auckland, in July 1876 by different shipbuilders, and with a single engine of 15 hp. At some point she was converted into a schooner, and was wrecked in Schooner Bay, Great Barrier Island, on 8 May 1887, after encountering bad weather in the Bay of Plenty. She was at that time owned by Fleming, Berry, Daniels and Company, of Gisborne.^[50] The ship was also known as Hettie at some point.^[55] She leaked and was beached on 8 May 1887 at Schooner Bay, Great Barrier, where she broke up.^[56] The official wreck return showed she was a 44 ton, 11 year old schooner, with the crew of 6, who all survived.^[57] Her engine and boiler were salvaged.^[58]

A 126-ton schooner or yacht, bought by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in September 1870, a few months after his wife had died. He used the boat as a base for entertaining friends and scientific colleagues.^[59] Dates estimated c.1860–1900.^[60]

Built in Liverpool, was the first ship to transport Indian indentured workers from British India to the Dutch colony of Suriname. She left Calcutta on 26 February 1873 with 410 immigrants on board, arriving in Paramaribo over three months later, on 5 June 1873. Owned by an Irishman at that time, the ship was afterwards either renamed or sold.^[61][62]

A wooden two-masted ketch, 59 tons, built on the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales in 1875. Named after Lalla Rookh (1823 ship),^[63] Reportedly used for blackbirding,^[64] she was later used for carrying timber,^[63] mostly between Townsville and Maryborough. Although some newspaper reports after Cyclone Sigma in the Townsville area in January 1896 reported her missing and thought lost in the storm,^[65][66] later reports revealed that she had escaped intact.^[67] She was last seen on 22 December 1899 off L Island (now Scawfell Island), shortly before a tropical cyclone struck the area.^[68]

An iron three-masted barque, 841 tons, built in 1876 by R & J Evans and Co. in Liverpool. In 1905 she was reported overdue when she took 199 days from Brisbane to Falmouth.^[69] Name changed to Effendi in Norway, 1916; then, in Finland, Karhu (1923). Captains included Kinnear, Crawley, Eriksson and Karlsson.^[70] In February 1926 she reverted to her original name, and was broken up in late 1928 in Bruges, Belgium.^[70][71]

A schooner on Lake Michigan, 60.34 ton, built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, by James Butler 2 February 1881, launched on 4 August 1881. Ran aground near Port Washington on 6 October 1887 and was stripped and abandoned.^[72]

Lalla Rookh II was built in 1956 by R J Prior & Son in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, as a research vessel, but styled as a fishing boat. She was named after Lord Kelvin's 1870 yacht (see above). After being sold in 1970, she was renamed St Just. After a somewhat chequered history, she is now based at Clydebank in Scotland after being restored as an historic vessel, and (as of January 2021^[update]) may be privately chartered for excursions.^[73]

• Lalla Rookh, a "sailing dinghy" capsized in the Hobart Regatta off Smelting Works Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, in January 1910.^[133]
• A "cutter-rigged yacht" named Lalla Rookh, found taking on water by lifeguard boat near Portland Race on 4 April 1953, was escorted to safety at Weymouth, Dorset.^[134]