Category:Scottish Hero (ship, 1876)

English: Scottish Hero was an iron-hulled barque. W. Doxford and Sons built her in Sunderland, launching her in 1876 for McIlwraith MacEacharn & Co, London. Dimensions: 196.6 × 33 × 19.1 ft (59.9 × 10 × 5.8 m) and tonnages 911 GRT, 896 NRT and 795 tons under deck. She was involved from 1876–1886 in the emigrant trade from the U.K. to Queensland. 1893 sold to A.H. Arnold, Brake, Germany, and renamed Saturnus. 1905 sold to Norwegian owners and 1914 sold to Swedish owners. 1915 foundered in the North Atlantic on voyage from Miramichi with a cargo of timber for Cork. The crew was picked up by the British steamer Colorado.^[1][2][3]