History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Dundonald |
Owner | Kerr, Newton & Calder Co., Glasgow |
Builder | Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd., Belfast |
Launched | 1891 |
Fate | Wrecked and sunk, 7 March 1907 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Barque |
Tonnage | 2,205 GRT |
Length | 284 ft 2 in (86.61 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (13 m) |
Depth | 24 ft 4 in (7.42 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Crew | 28 |
Dundonald was a British four-masted steel barque measuring 2,205 gross register tons launched in Belfast in 1891. It was involved in a wreck in 1907 in the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands. Only 15 of its 28 crew survived; they were rescued seven months later by a scientific expedition.