Falls of Clyde (ship)
Falls of Clyde at Honolulu Harbor
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| Name: | Falls of Clyde |
| Builder: | Russell and Company in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland |
| Launched: | 1878 |
| Homeport: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Status: | Museum ship |
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| Type: | Windjammer |
| Tonnage: | 1807 gross; 1741 net |
| Masts: | 4 |
| Configuration: | Fully rigged ship |
| Figurehead: | Maiden |
| Length: | 280 ft (85.3 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12.2 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
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Falls of Clyde (Four-masted Oil Tanker)
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| Location | Pier 7, Honolulu Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Coordinates | 21°18′20.5″N 157°51′54″W / 21.305694°N 157.86500°WCoordinates: 21°18′20.5″N 157°51′54″W / 21.305694°N 157.86500°W |
| Built | 1888 |
| Architect | William Lithgow |
| NRHP Reference # | 73000659 |
| Added to NRHP | 1973 |
Falls of Clyde is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. Designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989, she is now a museum ship in Honolulu, but her condition has deteriorated. She is currently not open to the public. In September 2008, ownership was transferred to a new nonprofit organization, the Friends of Falls of Clyde, which intends to restore her. Efforts to raise $1.5 million to get the ship into drydock have not succeeded as of 2015[update]. An additional $30 million may be needed to fully restore the ship.
In August, 2016, the Harbors Division of the State of Hawaii impounded the ship. Efforts are underway to convince the Governor to preserve the ship, including an online petition.
Falls of Clyde was built in 1878 by Russell and Company in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, launched as the first of nine iron-hulled four-masted ships for Wright and Breakenridge's Falls Line. She was named after the Falls of Clyde, a group of waterfalls on the River Clyde, and built to the highest standard for general worldwide trade, Lloyd's Register A-1. Her maiden voyage took her to Karachi, now in Pakistan, and her first six years were spent engaged in the India trade. She then became a tramp pursuing general cargo such as lumber, jute, cement, and wheat from ports in Australia, California, India, New Zealand, and the British Isles.
After twenty-one years as a British merchantmen, Falls of Clyde was purchased for US$25,000 by Captain William Matson of the Matson Navigation Company, taken to Honolulu in 1899, and registered under the Hawaiian flag. When the Republic of Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1900, it took a special act of the United States Congress to secure the foreign-built ship the right to sail as an American flag vessel.
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