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Mallsgate |
Official Number
63889 |
The Mallsgate was an iron barque built by R.Williamson &
Son at Harrington in 1877, reputedly a sister ship to Inglewood
and Geltwood,
built at the same shipyard and also owned by Fisher & Sprott. The
barque made her first voyage from Liverpool to Adelaide, departing on
the 14th August 1877 and arriving on the 22nd November, under the
command of Capt.J.E.Summers.
In 1880 the Mallsgate travelled from Liverpool to Adelaide, returning
to London with a cargo of iron. In 1882 her voyage was from Cardiff to
San Francisco, returning to Liverpool.The Mallsgate had a reputation for speed,
and in 1884 made a passage from Hull to Sydney in 74 days, during which
she covered 2,700 nm in only nine days.
On the 21st July 1889, a few days out from Newcastle, NSW, Australia,
bound for San Francisco with a coal cargo (1513 tons), the Mallsgate
stranded on the Middleton Reef and subsequently broke up. All the crew
survived.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Mallsgate
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1877
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1073
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215.0
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34.0
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21.0
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3
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100 years A1, Special Survey
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Sources :
- Photographs and newspaper reports of the Mallsgate available at the National Library of Australia website.
- Report of arrival from first voyage in the the South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide newpaper), Friday
23rd November 1877. The report includes a description of the vessel
accommodation, and of incidents on the voyage when an apprentice and a
seaman died in accidents.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1878-9: Mallsgate, iron barque, 1073 grt, 1043 nrt, built by Williamson at Harrington in May 1877,
official number 63889, signal letters QVJS, registered at Workington,
owned by J.Sprott.
- The "Last of the Windjammers, Vol.2"
by Basil Lubbock.
- Mercantile Navy List 1878: Mallsgate,
barque, 1043 tons, built at Harrington in 1877, official number 63889,
signal letters QVJS, registered at Workington, owned by John Sprott, of
Harrington.
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Elizabeth
and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve
- Wreck Inquiry reported in the the Brisbane Courier, Wednesday, 14th August 1889.
- Board of Trade Wreck Report for 'Mallsgate', 1889 (from the Port Cities website)
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State
Library of Queensland - showing a photo of an aboriginal breastplate,
presented to Porlorunki of the Taloom tribe, who assisted the shipwrecked crew of the Mallsgate, who landed some 18 miles
south of Double Island Point on the 31st July 1889.