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MAIN (1884)
Service dates: 1884-1910
Official number: 89613
Shipping lines: JAMES NOURSE LTD.
Ship type:
Sailing Ship.
Career
- 05.08.1884
- Launched.
- 02.09.1884
- Registered as Main.
- 19.05.1897
- Ownership transferred to C A Hampton and E Bromehead, London.
- 20.03.1903
- Ownership transferred to James Nourse Ltd., London.
- 15.03.1907
- Suffered heavy weather damage to masts and rigging en route New York/Calcutta. Put into Bermuda and towed back to New York for repairs.
- 1908
- Laid up at Hamburg.
- 1910
- Sold to J Samuelson, Farsund, Norway, and renamed Vanse.
- 1915
- Sold to Akt Bruusgaard (J Bruusgaard, Manager), Farsund, Norway.
- 1916
- Transferred to Akt Bruusgaard (K Bruusgaard, manager), Drammen, Norway.
- 08.12.1917
- Dismasted 120km (75 miles) ENE of Cape Hatteras, bound Buenos Aires/Hampton Roads. Abandoned five days later and foundered on the 16th, 360km (225 miles) ENE of Cape Hatteras.