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CACHALOTE (1)

Post by aukepalmhof » Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:24 am

Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 175 by J. Readhead & Co., South Shields for Nant Francon S.S. Co Ltd. (R&D Jones Ltd.), Liverpool.
November 1881 launched as the NANT FRANCON.
Tonnage 586 grt, 354 net, dim, 189.8 x 26.7 x 15.0ft.
Powered by one compound 2-cyl. steam engine, 77nhp., manufactured by builder.
06 December 1881 completed.

After completing mostly used as a cargo vessel from the U.K to the Mediterranean and Baltic.

December 1905 bought by Cia Argentina de Pesca S.A., renamed DON PEDRO, named after the Peter (Don Pedro) Christopher, the company’s vice-president.
She was bought by the company to transport the barrels of whale oil from Grytviken, South Georgia to Buenos Aires, and return with supplies and the mail for the whaling station in Grytviken.
She could carry around 2.500 barrels of whale oil.
08 November 1905 her crew was enrolled at Sandefjord, command was taken by J. M. Larsen a younger brother of C.A. Larsen.
After she was bought he sailed her to Cardiff to load a cargo of coal for South Georgia.
23 December 1905 arrived at Buenos Aires and sailed from there 02 January 1906 bound for South Georgia where she arrived on 11 January.
In Buenos Aires she was renamed in CACHALOTE.
19 February 1906 she sailed from Grytviken with 2.014 barrels of whale oil bound for Buenos Aires.
September 1913 sold for 1.988 Peso (c£400) to H. Ost, Buenos Aires not renamed.
1915 Sold to W.R. Grace & Co. Valparaiso, Chile and renamed PORTEÑO.
1917 Sold to Compañia Carbonifera y d Fundicion Schwager, Valparaiso not renamed.
1923 Sold to Beeche y Cia Ltda., Valparaiso, renamed MERCEDES.
September 1925 she sailed from Coronel loaded with coal bound for Valparaiso and went missing.
23 September 1924 wreckage was found on the beach at Tubul, Gulf of Arauco.

South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands 2009 65p sg?, scott?

Source: Register of Merchant ships completed in 1881 http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
Pesca a history of the pioneer modern whaling company in the Antarctic by Ian B Hart.
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