SS Dunearn

SS Dunearn was a British steel screw steamer of 2300 tons. On 26 August 1908, while sailing through the Korea Strait near the Gotō Islands during a typhoon, the ship sank with a loss of 51 of 53 crew members. The two survivors were rescued by the Japanese steamer Sakyo Maru. The Captain commanding the ship on her last voyage was Captain J. Graham. The two survivors were William Phillips, an engineer, and John Landon, a seaman.[1]

History
Name:
  • SS Avery Hill (1895-1899)
  • SS Dunearn (1899-1908)
Owner:
  • Nitrate Producers' S.S. Co. Ltd. - Lawther, Latta & Co., London (1895-1899)
  • Dunedin S.S. Co. Ltd. - Henderson & McIntosh, Leith (1899-1908)
Builder: Short Brothers, Pallion, Sunderland
Yard number: 247
Launched: 6 June 1895
Completed: 10 August 1895
Fate: Sunk on 26 August 1908
General characteristics
Tonnage:
Length: 351.4 ft (107.1 m)
Beam: 42.1 ft (12.8 m)
Draught: 25.4 ft (7.7 m)
Depth: 17.5 ft (5.3 m)
Installed power: T3cyl (24.5, 40, 66 x 45in), 1500ihp
Speed: 10 knots

Dunearn was built in 1895 by Short Brothers in Sunderland. On her final voyage, the ship was carrying a load of coal from Kuchinotzu to Singapore.[2]

References
  1. Boston Globe August 29 1908 Page 7
  2. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?237605
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