Category:Illawarra (ship, 1881)

English: Illawarra was an iron-hulled full-rigged ship built in 1881 by Dobie & Co, Govan for Devitt & Moore, London. Dimensions: 269'1" × 40'6" × 24'0". Tonnages: 1,963 GRT, 1,887 NRT, 1,787 tons under deck and 3,500 DWT. In 1899 she became a training ship. In 1907 she was bought by Norwegian owners. Abandoned at sea in 1912 in position 50°51'N, 12°59'W on voyage from Leith to Coquimbo (Valparaíso) with a cargo of coal. She had capsized when her cargo shifted. Other sources say that her cargo caught fire. The British steamship Manchester Mariner rescued her crew, and later transferred them to the steamship Bengore Head.^[1][2]