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Official Number
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Official Number
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The Eusemere was built at Workington in 1890 by R.Williamson & Son. She was a steel four-masted barque, the second of six Workington four-masted barques known as the "Six Sisters" (the others were Andelana, Vortigern, Pendragon Castle, Caradoc and Conishead). She was owned by Fisher & Sprott of Liverpool and sailed under the command of Capt.Sprott. Her early years were spent in the trades between India, the UK and the USA, and she visited Calcutta, Colombo, New York, Philadelphia and Portland, her cargoes including salt and coal outwards, and jute on the return journey. In September 1896 she was sold to Hamburg shipowners Reederei B. Wencke & Söhne and was renamed Pindos. She later went into the nitrate trade to Chile, and in 1906 she was sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, also of Hamburg.
| On the 10th February 1912 the Pindos was
wrecked at Coverack, Cornwall. She was bound for Hamburg with a nitrate
cargo, but had been forced to seek shelter at Falmouth. The tug Arcona
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sent by her German owners, but was unable to tow the ship in the face of
strong SE winds. As the vessels were blown out towards the Lizard
the tug had to slip the towline, and the Pindos was wrecked on the
Guthen rocks. The 28 crew were saved by the Coverack lifeboat and the local
coastguard, but the ship herself broke up after a few days.
NB: The figurehead of the Eusemere is preserved at the Altonaer Museum, Hamburg. |
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