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Blenheim
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | Blenheim | Steel Young & Co. |
Fate
Chartered to the Sutherland Innes Co, Mobile, Alabama to carry timber to Fecamp, France. She left Sydney on 13 November 1902 bound for Fecamp with a cargo of wood & a crew of 23 encountering bad weather from the start of her journey. A heavy sea broke one of the chain lashings on the deck cargo giving the vessel a list to starboard. A third of the cargo was jettisoned but the vessel remained listing heavily & she was abandoned to founder. The whole crew boarded a passing steamer, Acilis, & were landed at Hamburg. The master, T.R. Kirby, was not found to blame but it was recommended that in future timber should not be carried as deck cargo.
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