Built in 1869, which famous British ship was named after a Scottish undergarment?
City of York (barque) City of York (barque) City of York was a 1,194 ton iron ship which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island in the last few kilometres of its voyage from San Francisco to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1899. The three masted, 68 metre (223 feet) long, iron hulled ship was built in 1869 by Glasgow shipbuilders J. Elder and Company. The British owners were the 'Ship City of York Company'. It had only just been beaten by the famous "Cutty Sark" in the 1885 "Great Race", a race from China to London in which large profits were earned by
Germania (ship, 1869) ice and sank. However, the "Germania" managed to force its way through the ice, returning to Bremerhaven on 11 September 1870. "Germania" took part in a further two Arctic expeditions, being refitted as a whaler in 1884. This former research ship ended its career after it ran aground during a hurricane on 2 October 1891. Germania (ship, 1869) The Germania was a German schooner built in Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, in 1869. Fitted with an auxiliary steam engine, it was especially built as the main research ship of the Second German North Polar Expedition (1869/70) that explored Northeastern Greenland. The captain of