Agnes Blaikie (barque)
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During the Crimean war the British government chartered many trading vessels for delivery of military cargoes and equipment for the army which was based in Balaklava.
Barque Agnes Blaikie has left Thames January, 22, 1855 with a cargo consisting of 180 tons of shot and 250 of coke, for the Crimea.
Vessel it is named, presumably, in honour of the wife or the daughter of the Lord Provost of Aberdeen of Sir Thomas Blaikie.
Type of a vessel: trading barque
Origin: the Great Britain
Length: 116 feet. 3/10 inches (35,45 m)
Width: 23 feet. 6/10 inches (7,19 m)
Depth of hold: 16 feet. 8/10 inches (5,12 m)
The tonnage: 381 grt
Launched: October, 1841
Place: Aberdeen
Shipyard: Walter Hood
Rigging: three masts
Port of registry: Aberdeen (1841), Swansea (1849), Bristol (1852 (?), London (1855)
Name of the shipowner: George Thompson Junr., Aberdeen Line (1841), W. Jenkins and Co (1849), John Richardson, John Crow Richardson/Swansea Wales (30.06.1852), Henry Dobson/81 Princess Street Bristol England (05.02.1853), W. Dobbin (1852 (?), Jordison (1855)
Name of the captain: Alex Duthie (1841), Thomas Thomas (1852), Richard Pernam (December 1854 - March 1855), Henry Hamden (March 1855 - May 1855)
Members of crew: 12 (1855)
Port of the first destination: Santiago de Cuba
Date of ship-wreck: May, 5, 1855
Place of ship-wreck: the Black sea, Crimea, near Balaklava
Circumstances: collision with HMS MEDINA
Final condition of a vessel: full loss
Human losses: no
Saving operations: the crew is rescued by command of HMS MEDINA
Date of opening of the dive-site: September, 18, 2003
Name of pathbreakers: Anatoly Kopnin and Michael Fal'kovsky
Date of identification: September, 13, 2006
Localization of a place(country): Ukraine
Localization of a place(zone): Balaklava
Depth: 84 m
Website about sailing vessel AGNES BLAIKIE (on Russian) on English
