WAVERTREE

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Built under yard no 231 as an iron full rigged ship in 1885 by the yard of Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton for R.W.Leyland & Co., Liverpool.
Her intended name was TOXTETH, but she was sold before completed to Chadwick & Pitchard at Liverpool.
I am not sure of she was launched under that name, but she was taken over by the owners under the name SOUTHGATE.
Tonnage 2.170 gross, 2.118 net, 2.014 tons under deck. Dim. 81.84 x 12.7 x 3.66m.
Call signal KFBI. Crew 28.

She was one of the last full riggers built. Sailed on her maiden voyage under command of Capt. R.N.Smith and was used in the jute trade from India.
She spent three years in this trade, bought back by R.W.Leyland on 29 June 1888 and renamed WAVERTREE, (named for a Liverpool suburb).
Her first voyage under the Leyland flag was, when she sailed from Port Pirie, Australia with 28.748 bags of wheat to Europe, carried all sorts of cargo thereafter as a tramp ship.
07 June 1892 she caught fire in the cargo in the port of Sydney.
1899 She grounded in the River Elbe near Hamburg but without damage refloated.
21 August 1903, command was taken over by Capt. John Wingfield Yates.
12 October 1908 She collided with the steamship MORAYSHIRE in Ellesmere Port.
She sailed on 26 May 1910 from Cardiff to Valparaiso with a full cargo of coal. Severely damaged by rounding of Cape Horn, she was blown back, and made a call at Montevideo for repairs.
After repair she sailed out again heading for Cape Horn but driven back after partly dismasted, and 5 men of the crew injured, she limped into Port Stanley, Falkland Islands and was condemned.
1911 Sold to Chilean interest for £2850 and was towed to Punta Arenas in Strait Magellan for use as a storage hulk for wool.
January 1948 towed to Buenos Aires where she served as a sand barge, renamed DON ARIANO N.
In 1966 she was found by Karl Kortum in a backwater of the Riachuelo. Black hulled, deep sheered and the fore and mizzen lower masts still in place, still used and in working condition.
After negotiations she was bought by the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, and in August 1970 she was towed to the museum.
Still undergoing restoration at the museum.

Benin 1984 125f sg969, scott?
Falkland Islands 1984 6p sg484, scott?
Guinea 1998 750F sg?, scott1503A

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