Maritime History

Amaranth (barquentine)

Amaranth was a four-masted barquentine built by Matthew Turner of Benicia, California in 1901. Amaranth sailed in the China trade between Puget Sound and Shanghai. She was wrecked on a guano island in the South Pacific in 1913 while carrying a load of coal.

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See also

• ▸Axis naval activity in Australian waters
• ▸British Residency
• ▸Chesil Beach

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