The 3-masted iron barque Cromdale was an identical twin sister ship to the Mount Stewart. According to “Sail in the South” by Ronald Parsons, they were both the last two sailing ships to be built for specially for the wool trade from Australia. Both of the 1903-gross ton vessels were built in Glasgow in 1891. Both vessels carried ‘skysails’, and “were completed with short poops and long sweeping main decks”. Both vessels feature in “Sail in the South”.
Garry Keywood’s “Wedge Island – An Unexpected History”
features these photos of the Cromdale: -
Photos of the wrecking of the Cromdale feature in “Sail in the South” , which states that “in 1913, while she was bound for Falmouth for orders with nitrate from South America .. she ran on to Bass Point, near the Lizard Light on the Cornish coast. Her crew were saved but she was in a hopeless position and soon broke up.”
A photo of the wrecking of the Cromdale can be found at http://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/02/46282-3-2/2 with
the comments “A British built iron sailing barque, The Cromdale, ran into
Lizard Point, the most southerly point of British mainland, in thick fog. The
three-masted ship was on a voyage from Taltal, Chile to Fowey, Cornwall with a
cargo of nitrates.”
Although there were no casualties from the wrecking, the
ship was completely broken up by the sea within a week.
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