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. The Erato, Captain Thompson, sailed in June to Liverpool to load her first cargo, and departed in July for Calcutta on her maiden voyage.

The Erato was was owned by D.Brown in 1870, then Edward Bates, also of Liverpool. By the 1880's the Erato was registered at 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
1205
206.0
 35.3
 23.1
3 
 
 
Special Survey 

Sources :

  1. Maritime History Virtual Archives
  2. Mystic Seaport Library Ship Register Search has shipping register details from 1866 to 1894.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1865-6: Erato, iron ship, 1205 tons, owned Wakefield & Co., registered at Liverpool, master Capt.Thompson, voyage Isle of Man - India.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Erato, 1205 tons, official number 49878, signal letters WFSD, registered at Liverpool, owned by Robert H.Brown, of Liverpool.
  5. Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1888: Erato, ship, registered at London, owned by Foley & Co., commanded by Capt.William Green.
  6. Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1893: Erato, ship, registered at Helsingborg, Sweden, owned by O.Banck.