Eastminster (ship)

This article is about the ship. For the abbey, see Eastminster.

Eastminster
History
United Kingdom
Name	Eastminster
Owner	E.W. Berryman
Builder	Built in Port Glasgow, Scotland
Launched	June 1876
Fate	Lost February 1888
General characteristics
Class and type	Full-rigged iron-hulled ship
Tons burthen	1145 tons;[1] 1208 tons[2]
Length	226 ft (69 m)
Beam	35 ft 3 in (10.74 m)
Draught	20 ft 5 in (6.22 m)[1]

Eastminster was an iron full-rigged ship built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1876. She operated as an emigrant vessel.

Eastminster was last seen departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, after ignoring a warning from the harbor pilot, heading out to sea in a rising gale on 17 February 1888, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Eastminster was presumed lost during a tropical cyclone that passed through the area immediately afterward. Her wreckage was reported on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland.^[2]

References

1. American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1877
2. Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871-1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925-1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON

External links

• The Sailing ship Eastminster 1876-1888 & Captain Daniel Rowland Rees 1836-1888, by Ivor Davies
• Mysteries of Old Ocean, the Ship Eastminster That Disappeared in Queensland Waters, Cairns Post, 26 September 1939
• The Sailing Ship Eastminster, wrecked on Half Mast Island, Bunker Group. The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, 26 September 1934

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