SS Ellengowan
SS Ellengowan was a schooner rigged, single screw steamer built by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Christiania (Oslo) Norway, under her original name, Nøkken. The vessel was powered by sail and a vertical direct acting steam engine. Ellengowan sank at its moorings, unmanned, during the night of 27 April 1888 in Port Darwin and was abandoned. 103 years later, in 1991, she was discovered by divers making it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin Harbour.
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SS Ellengowan
SS Ellengowan was a schooner rigged, single screw steamer built by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Christiania (Oslo) Norway, under her original name, Nøkken. The vessel was powered by sail and a vertical direct acting steam engine. Ellengowan sank at its moorings, unmanned, during the night of 27 April 1888 in Port Darwin and was abandoned. 103 years later, in 1991, she was discovered by divers making it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin Harbour.
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SS Ellengowan was a schooner r ...... n shipwreck in Darwin Harbour.
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Sank 1881, refloated 1885, later sank 1888
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the water spirit Neck
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*D Hegermann
*London Missionary Society
*Palmerston Plantation Co
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Sail, single screw
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SS Ellengowan was a schooner r ...... n shipwreck in Darwin Harbour.
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SS Ellengowan
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*Ellengowan (1874-88)
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*Nøkken (1866-74)
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