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Sarah Anderson (ship)
Sarah Anderson was a British barque built in Liverpool in 1865. The ship was wrecked on 17 October 1886 en route from Coquimbo, Chile to Fleetwood, Lancashire when it ran aground on rocks near Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall. The ship Sarah Anderson was built in 1885 by the company Thomas Royden and Sons of Liverpool. The ship had three masts and an iron hull, measured 52.7 m long and weighed 589 tons. The crew of eleven was returning from Chile with a cargo of ore. The ship put in at Falmouth, Cornwall to await orders before leaving for Fleetwood on 13 October 1886. Aside from the sailors, there were four passengers; a woman and her two children who boarded in Chile, as well as the captain’s wife. The wreck The ship was caught in a fierce storm on 17 October 1886 and began to drift towards the north coast of Cornwall. Each day, Captain William Pucksey held short church services on deck and the crew was observed praying on the poop deck on the morning of the wreck. As the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million. On the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207, a city in 1880, and a county borough independent of the newly-created Lancashire County Council in 1889. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, merchants were involved in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Liverpool was a major port of departure for English and Irish emigrants to North America. It was also home to both the Cunard and White Star Lines, and was the port of registry of the ocean li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
