A ketch-rigged vessel similar to Ability
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History | |
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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.