Silverhow
 Official Number
69719

The Silverhow was an iron full-rigged ship built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company at Whitehaven in October 1875.

The Silverhow was renamed Signi and was wrecked in November 1904 at Ponte Des Montes in the St.Lawrence River, as she departed on a voyage to Buenos Aires with a cargo of lumber.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Silverhow
1875
1221 
226.0 
36.1 
22.1 
3 
 
 
100 A1 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  2. There is a very good photo of the Silverhow in the Multimedia Catalogue of the State Library of Victoria
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