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Ability (1878)

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History
Name: Ability
Owner: John Breckenridge
Port of registry: Sydney
Builder: William Woodward, Brisbane Water, NSW, Australia
Ship registration number: 37/1878
Ship official number: 74975
Completed: 1878
Status: Wrecked 5 January 1897
General characteristics
Type: Wooden ketch
Tonnage: 48 GT
Displacement: 48 NT
Length: 20.72  m
Beam: 5.486  m
Draught: 1.981  m
Installed power: NA

Ability was a wooden ketch of 48 tons, owned by J. Breckenridge and built at William Woodward in 1878. She ran aground at Cape Hawke, New South Wales, Australia, in 1897.

On 5 January 1897, traveling from Cape Hawke to Sydney with a load of timber, Ability broke her moorings and was beached at Cape Hawke, near Forster, New South Wales. There were no reported deaths.



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