LAMORNA sailing vessel 1893

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Built as a sailing ship under yard No. 387 by Barclay Curle & Company at Glasgow for Garden Cowen & Company at Greenock.
1893 Launched under the name LAMORNA.
Tonnage 2.318 gross, 2.169 net, dim. 284.5 x 42.2 x 24.5ft.
Ship rigged.
Nov 1893 completed., under command of Capt. W.J.M. Crichton.

Early on the morning of 2 March 1904 the German full-rigged ship ARTEMIS under command of Capt. Walker was sailing a northeast by east course about 20 miles off Cape Flattery inbound for Port Blakley.
Another ship later identified as the British vessel LAMORNA was observed on a similar course a short distance to the north. At first it was assumed that she was another inward bound vessel, and little attention was paid to her by the officers of the German vessel., but when their courses converged until the name of the British ship could be made out, they looked her up in the shipping list and realized that she was outward bound with cargo.
Signals of inquiry were hoisted, but the LAMORNA did not respond. Capt Walker reported that her steering was wild and at times she seemed to have not a real point to steer up. She would lay up to the wind, then changed course, come in and around under our stern and then take her original course again.

Port Townsend Daily of 10 April 1904 has the following info:
That she (LAMORNA) was caught in the gale which was blowing off the Oregon coast on 9 March and foundered.
March 7 was she sighted off St George reef, and that she still was in this vicinity on the 8th.
The theory is that she was thrown in the trough of the sea, that some of her stanchions gave way and the cargo shifted, either sinking the ship or causing her to leak badly that Capt Crichton decided to make port.

An other report gives that she was sighted off Cape Beale on 17 March.

She did not enter any port and was reported missing in 1904.

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