Ship Details
Rig
American Fully Rigged Ship
Built
1864
Built In
Tonnage
1183
Demise
Lost off Auckland Island, May 1866
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Description
General Grant was a 1,005-ton three-masted barque built in Maine in the United States in 1864 and registered in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She was named after Ulysses S. Grant and owned by Messers, Boyes, Richardson & Co. She had a timber hull with a length of 179.5 ft, beam of 34.5 ft and depth of 21.5 ft.[2] While on her way from Melbourne to London, General Grant crashed into a cliff on the west coast of main island of the Auckland Islands of New Zealand, and subsequently sank as a result. Sixty-eight people drowned and only 15 people survived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Grant_(ship) (accessed on 12/1/2018)
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