Queen Margaret

Date

2008

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Texas Tech University Libraries

Abstract

Ship Name: Queen Margaret; Sailed: 1893-1913; Type: Steel 4-masted bark; Built by: Dumbarton by A. MacMillan & Son; Dimensions: 275' x 42.2' x 24'; Tonnage: 2144 tons.

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Queen Margaret was always noted as a skysail ship, but in this photograph the skysail yards have been sent down. Queen Margaret sailed with cargoes of wheat, jute, coal, nitrates from South America, Australia, North America and Europe. The ship had the misfortune of stranding by accident on the rocks at Lizard Point in 1913.

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Merchant Ships, Ships

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