Name: | SWARTHMORE |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 11/01/1853 |
Completed: | 02/1853 |
Builder: | Coutts & Parkinson |
Yard: | Howdon |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 1381nrt, 215.0 x 32.3 x 20.0ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 25991 |
History: | |
12/02/1853 | Josiah Thompson, Charles Wilson & William Blane, Liverpool; registered at Liverpool |
29/01/1859 | Wrecked |
Comments: | Built to be an Australian emigrant ship |
29/01/1859: Wrecked on Gingerbread Ground near Eastern Isaacs | |
On a voyage from Philadelphia to New Orleans in ballast |
Newcastle Guardian & Tyne Mercury, Saturday, 15/01/1853