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Name Official number Flag IMO
BUTESHIRE  95084  GBR   
Year built Date launched Date completed
1888  25/07/1888   
Vessel type Vessel description
Cargo   Steel Sailing Vessel 4 Masted Ship
Builder Yard Yard no
Birrell, Stenhouse & Co, Dumbarton Upper Woodyard  45 
 

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
1906 grt / 1854 nrt / 266.5 ft  40.0 ft  23.7 ft   
Engine builder ,
Engine detail
 

First owner First port of register Registration date
Thomas Law & Co, Glasgow  Glasgow  03/09/1888 
Other names
 
Subsequent owner and registration history
 
Vessel history
1893 Reduced to barque rig (Miramar has her built as a barque) 
Remarks
1896 1910g, 1768net.  
End year Fate / Status
1911  Abandoned 29/03/1911 
Disposal Detail
Left Pisagua on 17/11/1910 with 3010 tons nitrates for Hamburg, and 25 crew and Masters wife. During passage very heavy weather caused ship to take on water to the extent that crew hoisted distress signals and prepared to abandon ship. Steamer ARDEOLA came to their aid and took off crew and landed them at Lisbon.on 30/03/1911. Ship abandoned Atlantic Ocean some 100 miles west from Brest 27/03/1911
27/3/1911 abandoned on fire while on passage Pisagua to Hamburg. Foundered two days later.  
 

 

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