The merchant brig rimac in two positions off cape horn, with another of brocklebank's brigs in view. Rimac, identified from her masthead watson`s code flags for 268 (= rimac ), was one of a class of twenty-one standard wooden brigs built for brocklebanks' of liverpool between 1822 and 1845. Launched from brocklebank`s own yard at whitehaven in 1834, she was registered at 215 tons and measured 90 feet in length with a 23 foot beam. Ordered specifically for the company`s peru route, she spent much of her life sailing to the many ports on the western coast of south america and rounded the horn´ no less than fifty-six times, a remarkable achievement for any sailing vessel, particularly a tiny brig. After a long and trouble-free career, she was inbound for dundee with a cargo of guano on 28th february 1862 when she was driven aground near kilrush, in the south-west of ireland. Although successfully refloated, she had suffered some hull damage and, perhaps for this reason, brocklebanks' sold her to nuttall & co. Of liverpool in 1864. Ten years later, on 12th december 1874, by which date she was owned by w. Hayes of blythe, she was wrecked near north somercotes, south of grimsby. [1]
↑ bonhams. Object Type: painting. Date: 1854. Dimensions: height: 63 cm (24.8 in); width: 90.5 cm (35.6 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Joseph Heard - The Merchant Brig Rimac In Two Positions
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