Qualla: Falls of Clyde (ship) https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/8/falls-of-clyde-ship-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Falls of Clyde (ship) https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship Falls of Clyde (ship): Introduction https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship/ Photo credit Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC0. In the early morning hours of October 15, 2025, the Hawaii Department of Transportation towed Falls of Clyde out of Honolulu Harbor and sank her in 12,500 feet of water, 25 miles south of Oahu. She went down stern first. It was a quiet ending for a ship that had been many things across 147 years -- a British merchantman on the India trade, a Hawaiian passenger vessel carrying sugar and general cargo, a sail-driven oil tanker, a rusting museum piece, and finally, a cause that nobody could quite save. She was the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship on earth, and the last sail-driven oil tanker. Both records sank with her.

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/8/falls-of-clyde-ship-wp/87z8-falls-of-clyde-ship-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Falls of Clyde (ship): Built on the Clyde, Bound for the World https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship/ Photo credit Lai Fong, Public domain. Russell and Company built Falls of Clyde in Port Glasgow, Scotland, launching her as the first of nine iron-hulled four-masted ships for Wright and Breakenridge's Falls Line. Named after the waterfalls on the River Clyde and built to the highest classification -- Lloyd's Register...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/8/falls-of-clyde-ship-wp/87z8-falls-of-clyde-ship-built-on-the-clyde-bound-for-the-world.mp3 0:06 2 full Falls of Clyde (ship): Sugar, Passengers, and Oil https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship/ Photo credit jimmyweee, CC BY 2.0. Matson rigged Falls of Clyde down as a barque to reduce crew costs, replacing yards on the jigger mast with more manageable fore-and-aft sails. He added passenger quarters, a deckhouse, and a charthouse. Between 1899 and 1907, she made over sixty voyages between Hilo and San Fran...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/8/falls-of-clyde-ship-wp/87z8-falls-of-clyde-ship-sugar-passengers-and-oil.mp3 0:06 3 full Falls of Clyde (ship): Decades of Decline https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship/ Photo credit Lai Fong, Public domain. By the late twentieth century, Falls of Clyde had been retired and parked at a Honolulu pier under the care of the Bishop Museum. Hurricane Iwa seriously damaged her in 1982. She was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989, but the designation could not substitute fo...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/8/falls-of-clyde-ship-wp/87z8-falls-of-clyde-ship-decades-of-decline.mp3 0:06 4 full Falls of Clyde (ship): Twelve Thousand Feet of Water https://qualla.com/falls-of-clyde-ship/ Photo credit Lai Fong, Public domain. Stripped of her National Historic Landmark status in December 2024 and removed from the National Register of Historic Places earlier that year, Falls of Clyde had exhausted every reprieve. On October 15, 2025, tugboats pulled her from Honolulu Harbor for the last time. Workers fi...

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