Ship Details
Rig
Fully Rigged Ship
Built
1876
Built In
Tonnage
1208
Built By
Demise
left Newcastle on 17/2/1888, despite the approach of bad weather and warning from Pilot, the Master continued voyage, vessel went missing in cyclone which followed. Wreckage was later found and identified;
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Eastminster was an iron full-rigged ship built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1876. She operated as an emigrant vessel.
Eastminster was last seen departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, after ignoring a warning from the harbor pilot, heading out to sea in a rising gale on 17 February 1888, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Eastminster was presumed lost during a tropical cyclone that passed through the area immediately afterward. Her wreckage was reported on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (185 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland
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