Buttermere
 Official Number
76414

The Buttermere was an iron barque built by the Whitehaven Ship Building Company and launched in January 1877 for Fisher & Sprott of Liverpool.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Buttermere
1877
992 
214.0 
34.8
21.0
3 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Record of American and Foreign Shipping 1885 :  names master as Capt.S.Ogilvie.
  3. Photo available at the San Francisco Public Library
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