Southgate

An iron full-rigged ship built in 1885 by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton, as Yard No. 231. Her dimensions are 81,84×12,7×3,66(d) meters [268'6"×40'2"×12'0"] and tonnage 2170 GRT, 2118 NRT and 2014 tons under deck. Sistership to the ship Fulwood (1885).

1885: Launched at the shipyard of Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton, originally for R.W Leyland & Co., Liverpool, but completed as the Southgate for Chadwick & Pitchard, Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 91286 and signal KFBL. Captain R.N. Smith was put in command of the vessel. Employed in the Indian jute trade.
1886 March 6 - June 25: Sailed from Penarth to Singapore.
1886 October 30 - April 22: Sailed from Chittagong to Dundee.
1888 June 29: Bought back by R.W. Leyland & Co., Liverpool, and was renamed the Wavertree.
1892 June 7: The general cargo from London took fire while in Sydney.
1892 October 3 - November 14: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Valparaiso.
1903 August 21: Captain John Wingfield Yates.
1904 February 8: Captain William Barton Tilston.
1905 February 2: Captain John James Simpson.
1908 October 12: The steam ship Morayshire collided with the Wavertree in Ellesmere Port.
1910 December: Dismasted off Cape Horn and condemned at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Sold for £ 2850. She subsequently served as a storage hulk at Punta Arenas, Chile, until 1948.
1947 August 6: Sold to Luis Uribe Parilla-Mutis as "old iron".
1948 January: Transferred to Buenos Aires where she served as a sand barge under the name Don Ariano N..
1968: Bought by the South Street Seaport Museum, New York, and preserved as a museum ship.

Select Bibliography:

A.G. Spiers & Alan Villers: The Wavertree, an Ocean Wanderer, New York, 1969.

Updated 1998-06-26 by Lars Bruzelius

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