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Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria
Posted by: Michael D. ()
Date: February 14, 2008 07:05AM

Hello Michael, Oliver & Simon,

the information with the torpedo-attack is on the page
from Lars Bruzelius, Sailing Ships.
www.bruzelius.info/nautica/ships/fourmast_ships/ellesmere(1886).html
easy to find in google with search "ellesmere" 1918 "santa maria"
original entry:

Ellesmere

A four-masted iron ship built in 1886 by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton.
Dimensions: 93,87×13,76×7,48 meters [208'8"×45'2"×24'7"], tonnage: 2708 GRT and 2645 NRT.

1886 April
Launched at the shipyard of Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton, for Fisher & Sprott, London.
1896
Sold to G. Croshaw, London.
1898 March 7
Sold to Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and renamed Schiffbek.
1914
Laid up due to the war at the island of San Miguel, Portugal.
1917
Confiscated by the Portuguese Government at the entry of that country in the war and was renamed Santa Maria of Lisbon.
1918 September 4
Torpedoed by a German submarine [According to Hurst by fire].

best regards and thanks for help
Michael D.

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Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Michael D. 02/13/2008 02:21PM
Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Simon Schnetzke 02/13/2008 04:52PM
Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Michael Lowrey 02/13/2008 08:21PM
Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Oliver Lörscher 02/13/2008 08:39PM
Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Michael Lowrey 02/13/2008 08:41PM
Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Michael D. 02/14/2008 07:05AM
Re: Sailing Vessel Port Santo/Santa Maria Yves D 02/14/2008 09:22PM


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