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| History | |
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| Name | Allahabad |
| Owner | Thomas Wall Stephens |
| Builder | Liverpool |
| Completed | 1864 |
| Fate | Disappeared 1886 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | |
Allahabad was an iron-hulled full-rigged ship, built in Liverpool in 1864. She was later re-rigged as a barque and disappeared in 1886 on a voyage from Scotland to New Zealand.
Allahabad was launched on 19 September 1864 by W H Potter & Company in Liverpool, as an iron full-rigged ship of 1,185 registered tons.[1] She had a length of 205.6 feet (62.7 m), a beam of 34.7 feet (10.6 m), and she had a 22.5-foot (6.9 m) depth.[2] The ship was built for the shipowner James Baines & Co. of Liverpool and began her maiden voyage from there, to Calcutta, on 10 December 1864.[3][4]
In 1877 she was re-rigged as a barque and re-measured as 1,191 tons gross and 1,143 net register tons.[5] At the time of her loss she was the property of Thomas Wall Stephens of London and him being the managing owner.[6]
Allahabad last left Glasgow on 2 July 1886, with a crew of 20 and a cargo of 1,712 tons, of which 1,635 was coal, bound to Dunedin, New Zealand. Having been signalled on 7 July off the Tuskar, she was on 4 September following, spoken, in about 29°S 28°W / 29°S 28°W by the ship South Australian. From that time she has not been seen or heard of, and never arrived at her destination.[7][8]