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Greystoke Castle | Official Number
93684 |
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Greystoke Castle | Official Number
93684 |
The Greystoke Castle was one of five large vessels built at the
Williamson shipyard at Workington for the Lancaster Shipowners Company
(the others were Lowther Castle,
Lancaster
Castle, Wray Castle and Pendragon
Castle). The Greystoke Castle was the third, an iron four-master
of 1878 tons, launched in July 1886. A later vesssel, the Silverdale, was also reported to have been built "to the same model", though that vessel was only a three-masted ship.
The Greystoke Castle was wrecked off Cape Agulhas (South Africa) 8th June 1896, on passage from Rangoon.
The Guardian, 11th June 1896, page 6;
" A telegram was received at Liverpool yesterday reporting
the loss of the ship Greystoke Castle, but all of the crew are reported
safe. The Greystoke Castle was going from Rangoon with a full cargo
of rice for Buenos Ayres. She left Rangoon on the 18th of April, and the
telegram states that she went ashore near Agulhas and became a wreck. Agulhas
is by the Cape of Good Hope, and the information of the disaster was received
from Capetown. The Greystoke Castle was a ship of 1,878 tons register,
and was built at Workington in 1886. She was classed 100 A1 at Lloyd's,
and was the property of the Greystoke Castle Ship Company, Limited, of
which Messrs.J.Chambers and Co., Liverpool, are the managers. The insurance
of the vessel will fall chiefly on Liverpool underwriters."
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