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Broke up and sank at anchor, I believe. Far too big for wooden construction, but impressive to look at.
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Very nice (and very interesting) ships again.
The Ashfield was built by the Lytham Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. a small shipyard just up the North West Coast of England. I know the area around Lytham very well but I did not know that there was a history of ship building there so that was very interesting to me! Launched in 1914, it was a coastal cargo steamer of 426gt owned by W. A. Savage & Co. Ltd. of Liverpool. It spent much of it's life sailing the North Wales Coast (just across from where I am now ) and to Liverpool before being broken up in 1954.
The Penang was built in 1905 by Rickmers Reismühlen Rhederi & Schiffsbau AG, Bremerhaven, Germany and was originally named the Albert Rickmers. A steel hulled three masted Barque of 2039gt, she changed hand a number of times sailing the grain route from Australia during the inter war years. She was sunk by German U-boat U-140 on 8 December 1940 en-route to Queenstown, Ireland, with 18 lives lost.
The Belle of Lagos was an iron hulled three masted Barque of 244gt built by A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow in 1868. Owner W. Bain & Co..
Liverpool. She sailed long distance routes as far as south Australia. I could not find much other information about her or her fate so I assume she ended her days and was broken up.