Built as a steel 3-masted barque under yard No 326 by A. McMillan & Sons Ltd., Dumbarton, Scotland for Sailing Ship Eagle Crag Co. Ltd., and managed by W.S. Kennaugh & Co., Whitehaven U.K.
Launched under the name EAGLE CRAG.
Tonnage 1.450 gross, 1.347 net, 1.325 under deck. Dim. 237 x 37.5 x 21ft.
Port of registry Whitehaven.
January 1895 completed and delivered to owners.
Her first captain was Capt. T Shimmin.
March 1908 sold to A/S Staalbark Inger (Albert Andersen), Grimstad, Norway, renamed INGER.
1916 Sold to Bark Ingers Rederi (Bernt Krøvel), Ålesund, Norway.
After loading 1.300.000 board feet of lumber at Pugwash N.S., Canada she departed on 10 July 1916 bound for Sharpness, England.
Thinking that he was at least 40 miles of the nearest land, and during dense fog the captain thought he heard a siren. He took this to be the whistle of another ship but it proved to be that of the lighthouse at Pointe Plate.
11 July at 04.30 p.m. in dense fog, and with a rough sea, she piled up on the rocks at Cape Coupe, Langlade, St Pierre.
The crew was saved, but the ship was a total loss.
On St Pierre et Miquelon 2000 5.40Fr. sg ?
Source: Watercraft Philately 2001/66. Shipwreck at St Pierre by J P Andrieux. Some web-sites.