Then we checked: - Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping for 1894-95 (Sailing Ships).

Order Number 1341: Official number 94215:

Culmore Steel Sailing Ship:

Captain J. Reid 1890 -92, A.R. Halliday 1892-94:

1 bulkhead Cement: 1 deck, 2 tiers of beams (Black Birch) Ship built under special survey.

Resurveyed June 1893 100A1, deleted from register 11, 94 (foundered):

Length 260.5 ft, Beam 38.2 feet, depth 23.1 feet. poop deck 32 feet, foredeck 34 feet. Flag British.

Height above keel 24 feet 7 inches. Freeboard at middle of ship 5 feet 1 inch.

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