Erato

Official Number 49878

The Erato was a full-rigged ship built of iron by the Ramsey Ship Building Co., at Ramsey,  Isle of Man, and launched in April 1864. She was similar in size and tonnage to the Euterpe, built the preceding year in the same shipyard. Her first owners were Wakefield & Co., of Liverpool, and she was registered at that port. She was sold to D.Brown in 1870, then Edward Bates, also of Liverpool. By the 1880's the Erato was registered in London, and her final British owners were Foley & Co. In March 1892 the vessel arrived at Hamburg from Chile with a nitrate cargo. She capsized at the Amerika quay, and after being salvaged was sold to a Swedish shipowner, Otto Banck. In February 1894 the Erato stranded at  Høien, Denmark, bound from Helsingborg to Garston Docks (Liverpool) with a cargo of beans. The vessel was a total loss.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Erato	1864	1238	206.0	35.3	23.1	3

Sources :

1. Maritime History Virtual Archives
2. Mystic Seaport Library Ship Register Search has shipping register details from 1866 to 1894.
3. American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1866 - master named as Thompson.
4. Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1888 - vessel registered at London, owned by Foley & Co., commanded by Capt.William Green.
5. Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1893 - vessel registered at Helsingborg, Sweden, owned by O.Banck.