Derry Castle

History
United Kingdom
NameDerry Castle
BuilderDobie and Company, Govan, Glasgow
Yard number136
Launched16 October 1883
IdentificationOfficial Number 86651
FateLost off Enderby Island, 20 March 1887
General characteristics
Class and typeIron barque
Tonnage
Length239.8 ft (73.1 m)
Beam35.9 ft (10.9 m)
Depth21.4 ft (6.5 m)
Sail planBarque-rigged

The Derry Castle was a 1,367 ton iron barque built at Glasgow in 1883, and initially operating out of Limerick, Ireland. She had been registered there on 19 November 1883 by Francis Spaight & Sons. In 1887 while voyaging from Australia to the United Kingdom with a cargo of wheat, she foundered off Enderby Island, in the subantarctic Auckland Islands, on a reef which now bears her name.