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'The CALIPH was named by Miss Rennie, daughter of John T Rennie of Deemount.

Vessel disappeared without trace on its second voyage in the China Sea. Captain Daniel Ritson and his wife Eliza were on board and lost with the vessel in 1871.

Basil Lubbock's book 'The China Clippers' conjectures that the vessel was possibly captured by pirates in a calm or she could have been lost in a gale.