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Lyndhurst - (1899-1911)
A four-masted steel Barque "Lyndhurst" was built in 1886.
Sold to Anglo-American Oil Co., in 1899 and reduced to barque rig.
24-08-1911, caught fire near Port Elisabeth and was abandoned.
The floating wreck was sunk by HMS Pandora, 67 miles south of Mossel Bay.
( Photo postcard at Boston Harbour, 1-1-1905, thanks to Andrew Ulavicius )
Lyndhurst
A four-masted steel ship ( Barque ) built in 1886 by A. McMillan & Son, Dumbarton, for W.R. Price & Co.
Dimensions: 89,91×12,82×7,33 meters [295'0"×42'1"×24'1"] and tonnage: 2311 GRT and 2249 NRT.
1886 September
Launched at the shipyard of A. McMillan & Son, Dumbarton, for W.R. Price & Co., London.
Mainly used in the Indian jute trade. Captain Martin.
1899
Sold to Anglo-American Oil Co., London, and reduced to barque rig. Captain R. Beatty.
1911 August 24
Caught fire near Port Elisabeth and was abandoned.
The floating wreck was sunk by HMS Pandora, 67 miles south of Mossel Bay.
Note :
The "Lyndhurst" had discharged part of her cargo of 70,000 cases of naphtha and twenty-five cases of kerosene in Delaoa Bay,
Durban and Algoa Bay and had sailed for Cape Town when, on 21st August, sixty-seven miles from Mossel Bay, she suffered a
terific explosion forward which caused some hatch covers to be blown through the topsail. Her crew members were rescued by
a nearby Clan Line steamer. The "Lyndhurst" was later sunk by gunfire from H.M.S. "Pandora".