Name: | EDINBURGH |
Type: | Sailing ship |
Keel: | 18/08/1862 |
Launched: | 23/11/1862 |
Completed: | 27/12/1862 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 13 |
Dimensions: | 698grt, 691nrt, 880dwt, 172.6 x 29.3 x 18.8ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 45758 |
History: | |
1862 | Levi & Co (Thomas Aggs & Co), London |
1868 | RM Sloman, Hamburg; renamed GUTENBURG |
1891 | JJ Wallis & Son, Barth, Germany |
17/01/1897 | Wrecked |
Comments: | Built for the Indian and China trades |
Contract price £10,845. Profit £733-8s-5d | |
17/01/1897: Wrecked on Run Island, Indonesia | |
On a voyage from New York to Makassar with a cargo of cased petroleum |