Candida
 Official Number
70990

The Candida was an iron full-rigged ship built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company at Whitehaven in September 1875. The Candida was originally registered in Liverpool, but by 1898 her registry had been transferred to Adelaide. The ship was hulked in that year after being wrecked on the 20th February 1898 at Wardang Island, South Australia.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Candida
1875
1279 
226.0 
36.1 
36.1 
3 
 
 
100 A1 

Sources :

  1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names owner as Lowden, registered at Liverpool, names master as Matthewson, signal code flags PCQV).
  2. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  3. There are photos of this ship in the Multimedia Catalogue of the State Library of Victoria
  4. Photo available at the San Francisco Public Library
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