CITADEL
CITADEL
Years Active: 1877-1895
Vessel Type: Full rigged wooden ship
Full-rigged
Nationality: English
Lost five crew members rounding the Horn in 1884. Spent two months in Port Stanley having £500 of repairs done. Sinks in 1885 under another name.
Main Use:
Cargo
Years Active:
1877-1895
Power:
Sail
Built:
1877
Size:
1,430 Gross, 1,363 Net tons
63.19 x 11.67 x 7.44 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Sampson & Co. at Quebec, Canada
Main Use: Cargo
Built: 1877
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Sampson & Co. at Quebec, Canada
Size: 1,430 Gross, 1,363 Net tons
Dimensions: 63.19 x 11.67 x 7.44 metres
On 7th June 1884, the fully rigged Canadian-built, Liverpool-based, CITADEL was towed into Stanley after sustaining severe damage rounding Cape Horn. It transpired that on 20th May one member of her crew had been washed overboard and drowned, and 12 days later, on1st June another four men had been similarly lost overboard. Attempts to repair her were hampered by the lack of a tug in Stanley harbour (something which wouldn’t be rectified for 16 years, until the tug SAMSON arrived in 1900). Her repairers had agreed a fee of £500 but lost most of it because they were unable to move the damaged ship: “I again tried the launch (which might have been the SISSIE) but to no purpose. She (the CITADEL) scarcely moved.” It was to be about two months before the CITADEL was fully repaired and able to leave Stanley to continue her journey. In April 1895, the CITADEL, now Norwegian owned and re-named INGRID, was wrecked on the coast of Florida in the USA.
On 7th June 1884, the fully rigged Canadian-built, Liverpool-based, CITADEL was towed into Stanley after sustaining severe damage rounding Cape Horn. It transpired that on 20th May one member of her crew had been washed overboard and drowned, and 12 days later, on1st June another four men had been similarly lost overboard. Attempts to repair her were hampered by the lack of a tug in Stanley harbour (something which wouldn’t be rectified for 16 years, until the tug SAMSON arrived in 1900). Her repairers had agreed a fee of £500 but lost most of it because they were unable to move the damaged ship: “I again tried the launch (which might have been the SISSIE) but to no purpose. She (the CITADEL) scarcely moved.” It was to be about two months before the CITADEL was fully repaired and able to leave Stanley to continue her journey. In April 1895, the CITADEL, now Norwegian owned and re-named INGRID, was wrecked on the coast of Florida in the USA.
