Category:Wanganui (ship, 1877)
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English: Wanganui was a iron full rigged ship built 1877 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Glasgow, Yard No 205 for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd. (Registered at London). Dimensions were; length × beam: 215.3 × 34 ft (65.6 × 10.3 m) and Tonnage; 1136 GRT, 1077 NRT. 1881 registry transferred to Lyttelton, New Zealand. 1888 sold to J leslie, W Savill, W Shirres, and JW Temple, renamed Blenheim and registered at Aberdeen. 1903 sold to Akt Blenheim, Sandefjord and in 1904 she was re-rigged to a barque. 1917sunk by torpedo by U-50 30 miles SSW of Fastnet, bound Pensacola to Greenock with pitch pine.[1][2] ID: 588880976[3]
Names:
- Wanganui (1877–1888)
- Blenheim (1888–1917) see Category:Blenheim (ship, 1877)
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Categories:
- Barques
- Iron ships
- Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
- Sailing ships of New Zealand
- Sailing ships of the United Kingdom
- Ships built in 1877
- Ships built at Alexander Stephen & Sons Glasgow
- Ships registered in London
- Ships registered in Lyttelton
- Ships named Wanganui
- Ships sunk in 1917
- Ships sunk by torpedo
- Ships sunk by U-boats
- Three-masted ships