FAMOUS BARQUE.
CAPSIZE IN HARBOUR. 1936 AIISHAP RECALLED. LONDON, Jan. 18. The famous four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, which was wrecked on tiie Hampstone Rock in April, 1936, after a voyage from Australia with wheat, and later was towed to Salcombe harbour, has capsized and disappeared.
The Finnish barqile Herzogin Cecilie reached Falmouth oh April 23, 1936, winning the grain-laden windjammers’ race from Australia for that year in a passage of 86 days from Port Lincoln. She was proceeding from Falmouth to Ipswich on the night of April 24 when she struck the Hampstone Rock, near Salcombe, in a fog. Distress signals were sent up at 3 a.m. next day and the Salcombe lifeboatmen saved the crew.
The Herzogin Cecilie was the largest sailing ship on Lloyd’s Register. She was built at Bremerhaven in 1902. Her mainmast was nearly 200 ft high and she liad a total canvas spread of 56,000 ft.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9
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