Category:Trafalgar (ship, 1877)

English: Trafalgar was an iron-hulled, four-masted ship built in 1877 by Charles Connell & Co, Glasgow. Dimensions: 82,72×11,95×7,11 meters [271'5"×39'3"×23'4"]. Tonnages: 1,768 GRT and 1,616 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails. Reduced to barque rig round the turn of the century. Trafalgar was lost on 11 November, 1904 near Pernambuco on a voyage from Sydney to Falmouth with a cargo of wheat, 50 miles south of Pernambuco, 20 miles South of Tamandare, Brazil.^[1][2]

• Note: during a voyage from Batavia to Melbourne in December 1893 the Master, all the officers andmost of the crew died, presumably of Java fever. Command was taken over by the senior apprentice, William Shotton (18 years), who navigated the ship all the way from Batavia to Melbourne.