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The 'Grasmere' under tow [PRG 1373/2/31] • Photograph

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The iron barque 'Grasmere', 1304 tons, under tow [steam tug Defiance, wooden ss, 64 gross tons. ON83635. 83.0 x 18.0 x 7.2 (after 1905 49 gross tons) Built 1881 (7) Rock Davis, Blackwall, Brisbane Water NSW. Owners (acquired from Sydney March 1889) WR Cave, registered Port Adelaide, March 1889, The Adelaide Steam Tug Co. Ltd. Vessel broken up in 1930. Further background see Steam Tugs in South Australia by Parsons, 1972] [Grasmere = iron ship, 1364 gross ton, ON74488, 226.0 x 36.1 x 22.1. Built 1875 (12) Whitehaven, SB Co. Whitehaven. Owners: Fisher and Sprott, registered Liverpool. By the mid 1880s had been rigged down to a barque, and by 1910 had been sold to Norwegians who retained the same name. Although said to have been employed regularly in the Australian trade for many years apart from three trips to New Zealand (in 1883, 1885, and 1887 each time under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company), information of her activities in Australia has proved difficult to locate. 'Last of the Windjammers' Vol. 1 p.168 and 170 notes some brief detail. (In which he draws a wrong conclusion, saying that her lengthy trips were a result of being rigged as a barque, against similar ships being rigged as a ship. The longest elapsed time for the trip was when she was rigged as a ship, her quicker times being after she was rigged down)].

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Physical description

Photograph; 11.1 cm x 15.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1885

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Grasmere (Ship)
Defiance (Ship)
Ships, Iron and steel

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General notes

This is one of the ships owned by the Mere Line / Fisher and Scott, London.

This image is from the A.D. Edwardes Collection of about 8,000 photographs, mostly of sailing ships from around the world, taken between about 1865 and 1920. Mounted in 91 albums, the photographs are arranged by country of ownership, with some special volumes such as 'Shipping at Port Adelaide' and 'South Australian outports'. Additional information, giving the history of the ships where known, has been provided by maritime historian, Ron Parsons.

Digitisation information

Date

14/06/2007

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,204 x 2,356 pixels (7.5 MP)

Size

22.66 MB

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