Ellesmere

A four-masted iron ship built in 1886 by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton.
Dimensions: 93,87×13,76×7,48 meters [208'8"×45'2"×24'7"], tonnage: 2708 GRT and 2645 NRT.

1886 April: Launched at the shipyard of Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton, for Fisher & Sprott, London.
1896: Sold to G. Croshaw, London.
1898 March 7: Sold to Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and renamed Schiffbek.
1914: Laid up due to the war at the island of San Miguel, Portugal.
1917: Confiscated by the Portuguese Government at the entry of that country in the war and was renamed Santa Maria of Lisbon.
1918 September 4: Torpedoed by a German submarine [According to Hurst by fire].

Updated 1997-02-21 by Lars Bruzelius

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