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Jock Willis Shipping Line
John Willis & Sons of London, also called the Jock Willis Shipping Line, was a nineteenth century London-based ship owning firm. It owned a number of clippers including the ''Cutty Sark''.〔
== Company history and its people ==
The company was founded in London by John 'Jock' Willis (1791-1862), a ship captain (nicknamed 'Old Stormy Willis'). Jock Willis had joined ships sailing along the British coast after having run away from his home at Eyemouth, Berwickshire when he was 14 years old. During one of his sailing voyages to London, he found employment at a pub frequented by seafarers in the New India Dock (now Canary Wharf). He saved the money earned there, supplemented by money earned by repairing seafarers' sea shanty musical instruments.〔 He returned to sail on the West Indiamen as a second and Chief Mate.
Willis married Janet Dunbar on 23 July 1815,〔 and the couple had nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest was also named John. In 1826, he started his own ship owning company, registered in London.〔
The younger Jock Willis (1817-1899), himself a ship master, took over his father's firm of ship owners. Also known as 'White Hat Willis', it was during his time that the company built and owned clippers like the ''Cutty Sark''. The other sons, too, joined the company in various capacities – either sailing on their ships or working in their offices.
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