Text from Basil Lubbock, The Last of the Windjammers.

"Manchester" and "Lydgate."

The steel four-mast barques, Manchester, launched by Dox-ford in 1892, and
Lydgate by the Palmers Co. in 1893, were the last two ships built for John
Joyce of Liverpool. The Manchester proved herself to be a very fast ship,
but the Lydgate was rather the reverse.

Unfortunately the Manchester went "missing" at the end of 1900. On her
previous voyage she had run from New York to Shanghai in 127 days, and then
broken the record from Shanghai to Tacoma. Leaving Shanghai on August 22,
she was only 23 days to Puget Sound. Her master on this passage was Captain
S. Forrest. It will be remembered that Joyce's Galgate made the run from
Shanghai to the Columbia River that year in 27 days.

My only notes of the Lydgate's passages refer to her being overdue; for
instance, in 1898 she left Portland, Oregon, on March 30 and did not reach
Taku until June 27, taking 89 days to cross the Pacific. In 1901 she was 134
days between Barry and Adelaide, and in 1902 took 180 days coming home from
San Francisco to Queenstown.

The Lydgate was sold to Norway about 1914.