Engelhorn
Official Number
96388

The Engelhorn was a four-masted steel barque built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company. She was the last ship built at Whitehaven, and was launched in October 1889. The Englehorn was lost off Cape Horn in August, 1914, on passage from Valparaiso to Falmouth.
 

Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Engelhorn
1889
2374
300.1
42.8 
24.0 
4
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Fredrik Sandström's Sailing Ships site
  2. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  3. R.Shimmin named as master in " Record of American and Foreign Shipping 1895 ".
  4. Online photo of the Engelhorn available at the San Francisco Public Library.
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