LORD TEMPLEMORE - SLV H99.220-4088

Four masted barque LORD TEMPLEMORE at anchor. 3039 tons. Built at Belfast 1892. Sold to Germany & renamed Alsternixe. The vessel was lost at sea in 1906. The Marine Investigation Board of Hamburg (Seeamt Hamburg) concluded that the ship under Captain Ludwig Althaber, left Callao/Peru on November 26th 1906 bound for Sydney Heads with a crew of 30 men. The ship was never seen again. It is believed she sank in a heavy gale in the southern Pacific about January 18th 1907. A list with the whole crew with their date of birth and country of origin can be found in an article in: "Viermastbark ´Alsternixe´ von Hamburg. Verschollen. Seeamt Hamburg, 3. Dezember 1907", in: Reichsamt des Innern (editor): "Entscheidungen des Ober-Seeamts und der Seeämter des Deutschen Reichs", Vol. 18, Hamburg 1910, p. 211-216. Information from Gerhard Wiechmann, October 2010.