History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | Eastminster |
Owner: | E.W. Berryman |
Builder: | Built in Port Glasgow |
Launched: | June 1876 |
Fate: | Lost February 1888 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Full-rigged iron-hulled ship |
Tons burthen: | 1145 tons; 1208 tons |
Length: | 226 ft (69 m) |
Beam: | 35 ft 3 in (10.74 m) |
Draught: | 20 ft 5 in (6.22 m) |
Eastminster was an iron full-rigged ship built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1876. She operated as an emigrant vessel.
Eastminster was last seen departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, after ignoring a warning from the harbor pilot, heading out to sea in a rising gale on 17 February 1888, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Eastminster was presumed lost during a tropical cyclone that passed through the area immediately afterward. Her wreckage was reported on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 [nautical mile]]s (185 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland.