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Torrens (clipper ship)
''Torrens'' (1875 – 1910) was a clipper ship designed to carry passengers and cargo between London and Port Adelaide, South Australia. She was the fastest ship to sail on that route, and the last sailing ship on which Joseph Conrad would serve before embarking on his writing career.
==Ship history==
She was built by James Laing of Sunderland,〔Lubbock, Basil ''The Colonial Clippers'' Kessinger Books, New York 1991 ISBN 1-4179-6416-2 pp.157–162;
(Lubbock, B. (1921) ''The Colonial Clippers'' ) 34 MB PDF〕 largely to the specifications of Captain Henry Robert Angel (1829–1923). She was jointly owned by Captain H.R. Angel and the Elder Line, but Captain Angel was her principal owner. She was of composite construction (i.e. steel-framed) with teak planking; 222 feet long, a beam of 38 feet and depth 21 feet 6 inches, registered as 1276 tons. She was "heavily sparred and carried a main sky sail yard, and for many years she was the only vessel with studding sail booms running in the Australian trade". The Captain's elder daughter, (Emily) Flores Angel (1856 – 1948), performed the traditional breaking of the bottle at the launching ceremony.
It is likely that the vessel was named in honour of Colonel Robert Torrens, a principal exponent of the economic benefits of nineteenth-century colonial trade.
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