English: The John Williams (LMS, 1869, p.36) Ship. John Williams (ship, built in 1865). The second John Williams, also paid for by children’s subscriptions, was a considerably bigger vessel, a barque of 296 tons gross, built by Hall, of Aberdeen, the famous clipper shipbuilder. In 1866, while still a new ship, she ran on a reef off Aneityum, in the New Hebrides. She was salvaged and repaired at Sydney, later on 9 January 1867, when she was wrecked on Savage Island (Samoa). ^{[1] [2]}