Euterpe

Official Number none

The Euterpe was an iron four-masted barque built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, yard no. 119. She was launched on the 15th March 1884 for B.Wencke & Soehne of Hamburg. Source 3 records five voyages for the Euterpe to Dundee from Calcutta and Chittagong, bringing jute cargoes.

The Euterpe blew up and sank on the 8th September 1902, 80 miles west of the Scilly Isles. She was on a passage from Port Talbot to River Pisagua, Chile, with a cargo of 3159 tons of coal.. Seven lives were lost in the wreck. The survivors were picked up by the British steamer Rydal Hall, which witnessed the vessel founder, and were landed at Las Palmas.
 

Sources :

1. "Portrait of a Shipbuilder: Barrow-Built Vessels since 1873", ed. Nigel Harris ISBN 0 947971 32 7 (published 1989).
2. There is a photo of this ship in the Multimedia Catalogue of the State Library of Victoria - note that one photo of this 4-masted barque appears, but also several of another, 3-masted, Euterpe, built at Ramsey.
3. Dundee City Council has a photo (ref. WC0816) of the Euterpe at Dundee in 1888.
4. " Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1890 " names master as H.Krause, owner B.Wencke & Sons.
5. " Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1895 "  names master as Capt.H.Krause.
6. The Times, Monday, 15th September 1902, page 4 : reports position of wreck as 49.36 N, 8.13 W, and that seven crew were killed by the explosion, and others injured.