Category:Rimac (ship, 1834)

English: Rimac launched from Brocklebank`s own yard at Whitehaven in 1834, she was registered at 215 tons and measured 90 feet long with a 23 foot beam. Ordered specifically for the company`s Peru route, she spent much of her life sailing to the many ports on the western coast of South America and rounded the Horn no fewer than fifty-six times, a remarkable achievement for any sailing vessel, particularly a tiny brig. After a long and trouble-free career, she was inbound for Dundee with a cargo of guano on 28th February 1862 when she was driven aground near Kilrush, in southwest Ireland. Although successfully refloated, she had suffered some hull damage and, perhaps for this reason, the Brocklebanks sold her to Nuttall & Co. of Liverpool in 1864. Ten years later, on 12 December 1874, by which date she was owned by W. Hayes of Blythe, she was wrecked near North Somercotes, south of Grimsby.^[1]