&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:The_trawler_%22Ellen%22_wrecked_on_Morgan_Beach_Yankalilla_coast_12_December_1908.jpg) The trawler Ellen wrecked on Morgan Beach
(State Library of South Australia image B40011) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ellen |
| Owner | Breslin and Watson |
| Builder | Smith Forrester & Co., Queensland |
| Completed | 1883 |
| Fate | Sold |
| Notes | Iron hull |
| Name | Ellen |
| Owner | Messrs. W. R. Cave & Co. |
| Port of registry | Port Adelaide |
| Acquired | Prior to 1908 |
| Fate | Wrecked, Morgan’s Beach, SA 1908 |
| Notes | [1][2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Twin screw steamer[3] |
| Tonnage | 91 tons (Gross), 62 tons (Net)[4] |
| Length | 100 feet (30 m)[3] |
| Beam | 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m)[3] |
| Depth | 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m)[3] |
| Installed power | steam, twin 30 horsepower, 11 inch cylinders.[3] |
| Propulsion | engine, sail[3] |
| Sail plan | schooner rig[3] |
| Speed | 8 knots[3] |
Ellen (also known as SS Ellen) was a steamship that was launched in 1883 and whose career involved coastal shipping firstly in the Colony of Queensland and then in the Australian state of South Australia. It was wrecked in Gulf St Vincent in South Australia at Morgan's Beach near the town of Cape Jervis on Saturday, 12 December 1908 during its return from fishing in waters around Kangaroo Island to a destination on the mainland.
- ^ Christopher, Peter G. (2006), South Australian shipwrecks 1802-1989: a data base, Society for Underwater Historical Research (Maritime Archaeology Association of South Australia) Inc, p. 49, ISBN 978-0-9588006-2-4
- ^ Jack Kenneth; Loney (1975), Wrecks on the south coast of South Australia (4th ed.), J.K. Loney, p. 42, ISBN 978-0-909244-00-2
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