Strathmore (ship)

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/career | hide_header = | name = ''Strathmore'' | owner = | operator = | registry = | route = | ordered = | builder = | original_cost = | yard_number = | way_number = | laid_down = | launched = | completed = | christened = | acquired = | maiden_voyage = | in_service = | out_of_service = 1 July 1875 | identification = | fate = wrecked in the Crozet Islands | notes = | flag = {{shipboxflag|UKGBI|civil}} | country = United Kingdom }} }} '''''Strathmore''''' was a British ship in the 1870s.

On 1 July 1875, while on a voyage from Dundee in the United Kingdom to Otago, New Zealand, the ship was wrecked off the Crozet Islands.<ref name="Times260276">{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Strathmore |date=23 February 1876 |issue=28562 |page=8 |column=D }}</ref><ref name="Times280276">{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Strathmore |date=28 February 1876 |issue=28563 |page=4 |column=F }}</ref><ref name=AVC /> The passengers and crew were considered dead after the ship did not arrive at its final destination. However, 44 crew and passengers managed to survive on a small island by eating eggs and geese, albatrosses, and other seabirds. They also ate root vegetables and fish.<ref name=AVC>{{Cite news |url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMMAAS01:210137066:mpeg21:a00007|work= Algemeene visscherij-courant|title=Varia. |date=2 April 1876|via=Delpher|language=nl}}</ref> Five people died because of the low temperature at the island.<ref name=AVC />

After seven months, they were rescued on 22 January 1876 by the American whaler ''Young Phoenix -'' captained by Civil War hero David Lewis Gifford.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre02Whit-t1-body-d2-d1-d1.html|work= Victoria University of Wellington |title=Wreck of the Ship Strathmore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/1876-inspirational-survivors/6IXMO2456IIEJQ2TCZKAYQY3RQ/ |work= New Zealand Herald |title= 1876: Inspirational survivors|date=10 October 1876}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://crozetvv.free.fr/histoire_naufrages3.php|work= Crozet|title=Le naufrage du Strathmore (1875)|language=fr}}</ref>

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Category:19th-century ships Category:Maritime incidents in July 1875 Category:Ships of the United Kingdom Category:Individual sailing vessels Category:1875 disasters Category:Crozet Islands category:Castaways