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Eastminster
History
United Kingdom
Name	Eastminster
Owner	E.W. Berryman
Builder	Built in Port Glasgow, Scotland
Launched	June 1876
Fate	Lost February 1888
General characteristics
Class and type	Full-rigged iron-hulled ship
Tons burthen	1145 tons; 1208 tons
Length	226 ft (69 m)
Beam	35 ft 3 in (10.74 m)
Draught	20 ft 5 in (6.22 m)

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 (190 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland.

References

1. ^ American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1877
2. ^ Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871-1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925-1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON

External links

• The Sailing ship Eastminster 1876-1888 & Captain Daniel Rowland Rees 1836-1888, by Ivor Davies
• Mysteries of Old Ocean, the Ship Eastminster That Disappeared in Queensland Waters, Cairns Post, 26 September 1939
• The Sailing Ship Eastminster, wrecked on Half Mast Island, Bunker Group. The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, 26 September 1934

23°26′49″S 151°55′05″E / 23.447°S 151.918°E / -23.447; 151.918

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