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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
SS Carel Mapu (ship)
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Description area
Dates of existence
1877 - 1915
History
Ship rigged, three masted vessel, 1,447 tons gross. She was built as the sailing vessel Kinross in Liverpool, and owned by Gibson & Company, West Hartlepool, England between 1877 and 1907. She was then owned by Charles Oelckers, Chile from 1907 to 1915, and wrecked in heavy weather off Gowland Rock, (near Tofino) Vancouver Island on 25 November 1915, while on voyage from Valparaiso to Strait of Juan de Fuca. 20 lives were lost.