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((More citations needed|date=December 2022))((Short description|British ship))

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'''''Rotomahana''''' was a British steel-hulled, four-masted [[barque]]. It was constructed in 1881 and it was wrecked in 1884.

==Construction==

''Rotomahana'' was built for James R DeWolf of 28 Brunswick Street, [[Liverpool]] at the yard of Messrs Russell & Co, Cartsdyke, [[Greenock]]. It was launched on Tuesday 28 June 1881. James R DeWolf was a descendant of [[James DeWolf]], a slave trader and privateer.

== Name and other ships ==
''Rotomahana'' was a name used by at least two other ships of the era. [[Lake Rotomahana|Rotomahana]] and its [[Pink and White Terraces]] had become better known after the [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Duke of Edinburgh]] visited in 1870.<ref>((Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 December 1870|title=RETURN OF THE P.S. 'LUNA,' WITH H.R.H THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND THE GOVERNOR. AUCKLAND STAR|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18701220.2.14|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz))</ref> [[SS Rotomahana (1876)|Rotomahana]] was the name of the first iron ship built in [[Auckland]] in 1876 and beached in 1924<ref>((Cite web|last=|first=|date=17 June 1924|title=PIONEER, VESSEL'S END. NEW ZEALAND HERALD|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19240617.2.120|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz))</ref> and another, launched at [[William Denny and Brothers|Denny shipyard]] for [[Union Company#Fleet|Union Steamship]] in 1879<ref>((Cite web|last=|first=|date=13 October 1879|title=THE ROTOMAHANA. AUCKLAND STAR|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18791013.2.8|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz))</ref> and scrapped in 1926.<ref>((Cite web|last=|first=|date=12 May 1926|title=STEAMER ROTOMAHANA. AUCKLAND STAR|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19260512.2.74|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz))</ref>

==Service==

''Rotomahana'' was recorded as arriving at [[Dundee]] on 19 April 1883.<ref>((cite web | title=The Times & The Sunday Times | website=The Times Archive | date=26 April 2020 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1883-04-19/11/12.html#start%3D1881-01-01%26end%3D1885-01-01%26terms%3Drotomahana%26back%3D/tto/archive/find/rotomahana/w:1881-01-01%7E1885-01-01/1%26prev%3D/tto/archive/frame/goto/rotomahana/w:1881-01-01%7E1885-01-01/1 | access-date=26 April 2020))</ref>

On 19 May it sailed from Dundee under the command of John W Mance. Its crew agreement bound participants to a trip to [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]], and on to [[Wilmington, California]] "and/or any ports in places not exceeding 75 degrees north and 65 degrees south latitudes, trading to and fro, within these limits as required, for a period not exceeding three years and back to a final port of discharge in the United Kingdom or on the continent of Europe between the Elbe and Brest, with power to call at any place for orders".

The crew were aged between 19 and 43 with birthplaces ranging from the UK to Sweden, Italy, Holland, the West Indies, and Sicily. Wages ranged from £5 5s a month for George Unwin of Liverpool, the sailmaker, to £3 5s for the 20 able-bodied seamen. Unwin's wage of £17 02 5d was paid on discharge. Fifteen of the ABs deserted the ship in San Francisco.

The agreement also listed the food the crew could expect, which included 1lb of bread a day 1½lb of beef and 1¼lb of pork on alternate days, ½lb of flour and ⅓lb of peas on alternate days. The men would also receive a daily ration of ⅛oz of tea, ½oz of coffee, 2oz of sugar and 3 quarts of water, as well as the statutory lime and lemon juice and sugar. "Equivalent substitutes as may be found necessary."
 
''Rotomahana'' arrived back in Liverpool on 16 May 1884. One death was recorded but no name given.

==Final voyage==

''Rotomahana'' set sail from Liverpool, bound for San Francisco, US in the summer of 1884 with a cargo of coal.<ref>Huddersfield Chronicle, 12 November 1884</ref> Two months into the trip, the coal was found to be ablaze. It was said that the ship's compasses were so affected by heat that they were "perfectly untrustworthy". The result was that Rotomahana [[List of shipwrecks in 1884|ran ashore]] at Elephant Keys, in the northwest of East Falkland, on 20 August 1884.<ref name="WRECKSITE">((cite web | title=ROTOMAHANA BARQUE – BARK 1881–1884 | website=WRECKSITE | url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?116451 | access-date=26 April 2020))</ref>

The ''Rotomahana'' crew reached Port Stanley on 10 September 1884 and the ship's fate was recorded in "Maritime Losses" in The Times on 26 September 1884 <ref>((cite web | title=The Times & The Sunday Times | website=The Times Archive | date=26 April 2020 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1884-09-26/8/10.html#start%3D1881-01-01%26end%3D1885-01-01%26terms%3Drotomahana%26back%3D/tto/archive/find/rotomahana/w:1881-01-01%7E1885-01-01/1%26next%3D/tto/archive/frame/goto/rotomahana/w:1881-01-01%7E1885-01-01/2 | access-date=26 April 2020))</ref> There was at least one fatality. Sailmaker George Unwin of [[Liverpool]] subsequently died in [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]], on 14 November.

==Legacy==

In November 1884 a Board of Trade inquiry was held into the loss of both ''Rotomahana'' and ''Earl of Beaconsfield'', a slightly larger vessel that had carried coal and general cargo. The ''Earl of Beaconsfield'' fire was blamed on spontaneous combustion. The inquiry ruled that the ordinary precautions for the safety of carrying coal cargoes were insufficient. It noted that the fire on ''Earl of Beaconsfield'' remained hidden until it was too late to fight in properly and said it was "very significant" that many of the ships that went missing were carrying coal. The board called for all coal-carrying ships to be fitted with a system of tubes to be inserted at different points in the cargo to assess temperature.((citation needed|date=April 2020))

== References ==
((reflist))

[[Category:Barques]]
[[Category:Four-masted ships]]
[[Category:Tall ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:1881 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Glasgow]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in August 1884]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]

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