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Shipwreck Database

Vessel
*Not A Total Loss

Harlech Castle

  
Name (former)
Official Number
Propulsion
 Sail
Nationality
 UK
Masts
 3
Age
 2
Decks
Value
  
Type
 Bark
Call Sign
  
Use
 Commercial
Home Port
 England, Liverpool
Tonnage (gross)
Built When
 1867
Tonnage (net)
Built Where
 England, Liverpool
Tonnage
Built by
 Evans
Displacement
  
Hull Material
 Iron
Length (ft)
 174.2
Cargo
 Barley
Beam
 28.3
Owner
 Richards & Company
Depth of Hold
 17.9
 
CASUALTY
   
Latitude
35°41N
Longitude
121°18W
WHERE
Point Piedras Blancas, Harlech Castle Rock
STATE
CA
YEAR
1869
LAST PORT
CA, San Francisco (07-16-1869)
MONTH
08
DESTINATION
Peru, Iquiqui
DAY
29
People on Board
TIME
FATALITIES
2
CAUSE
Heavy Weather
NATURE OF CASUALTY

The English ship Harlech Castle sailed from San Francisco for Iquiqui, Peru, on the 16th of July with a cargo of barley. Experienced heavy weather most of the time until August 29th, when she struck a sunken rock off San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, and sunk the following morning. Vessel and cargo a total loss. Two seamen were lost by swamping of a boat. Captain and survivors arrived at San Francisco on the 8th. Humboldt Times 098-18-1869, Martin

Lloyds List:
September 8, 1869; HARLECH CASTLE San Francisco Iquiqui, ashore Piedras Blancas.