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Name | Loch Ard |
Namesake | Loch Ard, Scotland |
Owner | General Shipping Co |
Operator | James Aitken |
Port of registry | Glasgow |
Builder | Charles Connell & Co, Scotstoun |
Yard number | 87 |
Launched | 8 November 1873 |
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Fate | Wrecked 1 June 1878 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Clipper |
Tonnage | 1,693 GRT, 1,624 NRT |
Length | 262.7 ft (80.1 m) |
Beam | 38.3 ft (11.7 m) |
Depth | 23.0 ft (7.0 m) |
Propulsion | sail, three masts |
Sail plan | full-rigged ship |
Crew | 17 |
Notes | Gave her name to Loch Ard Gorge, where she was wrecked. |
Loch Ard was an iron-hulled clipper ship that was built in Scotland in 1873 and wrecked on the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia in 1878.[1][2]
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