Cromdale
A steel full-rigged ship built in 1891 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow.
Dimensions: 271'6"×40'1"×23'4" and tonnage: ____ GRT, 1903 NRT and ____ tons under deck.
Rigged with a main skysail and double topgallant sails.
Sister ship to the same owner's Mount Stewart (1891).
- 1891 June
- Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for Donaldson Rose & Co. Assigned the official British Reg. No. ____ and signal ____. Employed in the Australian wool trade. Captain E.H. Andrew was the first master of the ship.
- 1894
- Sailed from Sydney to London in 80 days.
- 1898
- Captain Sibley.
- 1913 January 19
- Wrecked in a fog at Bass Point, Lizard, 126 days out on voyage with a cargo of nitrate from Taltal to Falmouth f.o. Captain Arthur, Dundee, was in command.
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