Maritime History

Dunmore (ship)

Dunmore was a wooden-hulled steamship of the coastal trade in Australia, and was one of the Stone Fleet. The ship also carried coal, standing in on occasion as a 'sixty-miler' collier of the coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales. She was mainly used on the run between Bass Point and Sydney, during the years from 1891 to 1922. During that period, she survived a number of collisions and other incidents, but developed a reputation as an unlucky ship, at least for the other vessels with which she collided. This ship is not to be confused with its similarly-named contemporaries, the trans-Atlantic steam freighter and eventual ghost ship, Dunmore, built in 1884, and the four-masted steel-hulled barque, Earl of Dunmore (later Spartan)—also built in 1891 and which was also a visitor to Sydney Harbour.

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See also

• ▸HMS Piercer
• ▸Conservative Judaism
• ▸Douglas Head Lighthouse

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