Category:Cromartyshire (ship, 1879)

English: Cromartyshire was a iron-hulled full-rigged ship built 1879 by Russell & Co, Port Glasgow, (yard No 19) for Thomas Law & Co, Glasgow. 1898 collided with the CGT liner La Bourgogne off the Newfoundland Banks. La Bourgogne sank, resulting in the loss of 571 people. 1901 on a voyage from Leith to Port Elizabeth, Cromartyshire was abandoned on fire off Mossel Bay, but subsequently retrieved. 1906 leaving Antofagasta to load at Iquique, on the 24 October she went ashore and was wrecked at Tetus Point on Printabu Island.
Dimensions: length × beam × depth = 248.7 × 38.1 × 22.7 ft (75.8 × 11.6 × 6.9 m). Tonnages: 1,554 GRT, 1,462 NRT.^[1]