Engineering:Strathmore (ship)
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Short description: British ship
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Strathmore |
| Out of service: | 1 July 1875 |
| Fate: | wrecked in the Crozet Islands |
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Strathmore was a British ship in the 1870s.
On 1 July 1875, while on a voyage from Dundee in the United Kingdom to Otago, New Zealand, the ship was wrecked off the Crozet Islands.[1][2][3] The passengers and crew were considered dead after the ship did not arrive at its final destination. However, 44 crew and passengers managed to survive on a small island by eating eggs and geese, albatrosses, and other seabirds. They also ate root vegetables and fish.[3] Five people died because of the low temperature at the island.[3]
After seven months, they were rescued on 22 January 1876 by the American whaler Young Phoenix - captained by Civil War hero David Lewis Gifford.[4][5][6]
References
- ↑ "The Strathmore". The Times (London) (28562): col D, p. 8. 23 February 1876.
- ↑ "The Strathmore". The Times (London) (28563): col F, p. 4. 28 February 1876.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Varia." (in nl). Algemeene visscherij-courant. 2 April 1876. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMMAAS01:210137066:mpeg21:a00007.
- ↑ "Wreck of the Ship Strathmore". Victoria University of Wellington. https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre02Whit-t1-body-d2-d1-d1.html.
- ↑ "1876: Inspirational survivors". New Zealand Herald. 10 October 1876. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/1876-inspirational-survivors/6IXMO2456IIEJQ2TCZKAYQY3RQ/.
- ↑ "Le naufrage du Strathmore (1875)" (in fr). Crozet. http://crozetvv.free.fr/histoire_naufrages3.php.
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