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The ''Eleanor Lancaster'' was a 3-masted barque built at Maryport in 1839.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eleanor Lancaster )〕 Launched in 1840, and initially registered in Liverpool, it was operated by David Laidman (named after his wife, Eleanor Ann Hannah née Lancaster,〔 http://www.laidman.org/wc06_054.htm〕 with Captain P.Cowley as captain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transcription from Lloyd's Register of Ships ) 〕 In 1845, the ship was re-registered in London and was operated by Soutter & Co, with Captain Francis Lodge in command.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eleanor Lancaster Shipwreck )〕 The ship had a gross weight of 480 tons and was sheathed in copper until 1847, when it was re-sheathed in felt and yellow metal.〔 Amongst its voyages, it sailed to Bombay, Port Phillip, Lima and Sydney.〔 The ''Lancaster'' was one of seven ships that sailed from Australia to San Francisco at the time of the California Gold Rush, leaving Sydney on 21 January 1849 and was the first to arrive in San Francisco on 2 April.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eleanor Lancaster passenger list on arrival at San Francisco )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australia and New Zealand Mining Companies )〕 Upon arrival, her crew apparently deserted and the captain used the ship along the Sacramento River, until she returned to San Francisco and was used as a bonded storeship until 1850.〔〔 On 7 November 1856, the ship was wrecked in a gale on Oyster Bank, Newcastle, New South Wales during passage from Newcastle to Melbourne with 640 tons of coal, under the command of Captain James McLean and with 15 crew.〔 The crew clung to the rigging throughout the night and were finally rescued due to a seaman, William Skilton, who made several trips in a small boat to the wreck, despite raging seas.〔〔 The "Perilous Gate" is a 19th-century poem by an anonymous author, describing the shipwreck. It has been abridged into a song of the same name by Phyl Lobl. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eleanor Lancaster (ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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