Shipwreck of the Trajan

The Trajan was a Bark rigged sailing vessel which took her name from the Roman Emperor Trajan. She was built in 1856 at the yard of H. Merrian in Rockland Maine, had a length of 125, a beam of 29 6 and a draft of 13. From 1856 to 1864 she made several passages between New York, Cuba, and England. By 1867 she was engaged in the Rockland Lime Trade under the command of Captain W. Sleeper. At the time of the Trajans loss, August 17, 1867, in Newport Rhode Island she was on a voyage from Rockland Maine to New Orleans carrying a cargo of lime. Lime was a dangerous cargo: if it got wet, a chemical reaction created heat and sometimes caused the schooner to catch fire. This was to be Trajans undoing.

For more information please visit http://www.soundunderwatersurvey.com/SUS/Wrecks/trajan.htm

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[Ttorrent]

Very cool find Mark! 

Team Torrent