Parramatta (ship, 1866)

Parramatta

Parramatta

Ship data flag  United Kingdom Ship type Sailing ship Shipyard Wigram & Green , London Launch 1866 Whereabouts lost en route to King's Lynn in Norfolk

Ship dimensions and crew length 56.00 m ( Lüa ) width 12.00 m measurement 1,521 GRT

Rigging and rigging Rigging Full ship Number of masts 3

The 1866 Parramatta was a liner and wool freighter on the UK - Australia route.

The Parramatta belonged to the Blackwall frigate type . This type of ship got its name from the Blackwall Yard shipyard on the Thames, where the first ship of this type - the Seringapatam - was launched in 1837. The ships of this type were built almost exclusively from Burmese teak .

The Parramatta was the last large ship built by its designer James Laing from Sunderland and one of the last wooden merchant ships to be launched. When it entered service, the cost of iron construction was about 30 percent lower - about £ 14 per tonne for an iron ship versus £ 20 for a comparable wooden ship.

On January 12, 1898, the ship cast off at Galveston and set out for King's Lynn in Norfolk , Great Britain, where it never arrived.

Picture gallery

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  The Parramatta in the harbor

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  On board the Parramatta

literature

• Tony Gibbons et al .: The world of ships. Bassermann Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8094-2186-3 , p. 197

Web links

Commons : Parramatta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Travels of the Parramatta (Eng.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Painted Ports: The Story of the Ships of Devitt & Moore, p. 38