_-_SLV_H99.220-6.jpg) Loch Vennachar in port
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Loch Vennachar |
| Namesake | Loch Venachar |
| Owner |
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| Operator | Glasgow Shipping Co |
| Port of registry | Glasgow |
| Builder | J&G Thomson, Dalmuir |
| Launched | 4 August 1875 |
| Maiden voyage | 9 September 1875 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | sank September 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | clipper |
| Tonnage | 1,557 GRT, 1,485 NRT |
| Length | 250.1 ft (76.2 m) |
| Beam | 38.3 ft (11.7 m) |
| Sail plan | 3-masted square-rigged ship |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Notes | sister ship: Loch Garry |
Loch Vennachar was an iron-hulled, three-masted clipper ship that was built in Scotland in 1875 and lost with all hands off the coast of South Australia in 1905. She spent her entire career with the Glasgow Shipping Company, trading between Britain and Australia. The company was familiarly called the "Loch Line", as all of its ships were named after Scottish lochs. The ship was named after Loch Venachar, in what was then Perthshire.
In 1892 Loch Vennachar survived being dismasted by a cyclone in the Indian Ocean. In 1901 she was sunk when a steamship collided with her in the Thames Estuary. She was raised, repaired and returned to service. In 1905 she sank again off Kangaroo Island.
In 1976 marine archaeologists found Loch Vennachar's wreck just off West Bay, Kangaroo Island. The Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 protects the wreck. Parts of one of her anchors were recovered in 1980 and are now preserved on Kangaroo Island.