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The 'Edinburgh Castle' wrecked at Warrnambool [PRG 1373/21/75] • Photograph

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Summary

The iron barque 'Edinburgh Castle', 627 tons, wrecked at Warrnambool. Also refer to the print PRG 1373/21/54 [iron 3 mast barque 627 gross tons. ON45971. 185.5 x 29.3 x 18.7. Built 1863 (5) JG Lawrie, Glasgow. Owners T Skinner and Co. registered Glasgow. Wrecked at Warrnambool Victoria January 15, 1888 when she struck while entering in charge of a pilot. Efforts to save the vessel proved useless. She was inward with a cargo of cement for the new breakwater].

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Physical description

Photograph; 15.4 cm x 20.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

1888

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Edinburgh Castle (Ship)
Ships, Iron and steel

Catalogue record

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General notes

From the volume titled 'British Owned Iron and Steel Barques (I)'.

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

17/08/2007

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,433 x 2,566 pixels (8.8 MP)

Size

26.44 MB

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