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Post by Diane Merkel on Mar 26, 2005 12:45:33 GMT -6
I received the following query from a website visitor:
I am a volunteer at the Scottish Maritime Museum and am trying to trace a ship, Oban Bay. She was built by Dobie & Co. of Glasgow and completed in November 1876 for Hatfield, Cameron & Co. She was an iron barque of 1065 tons. She was later sold to a Spanish company, and she was stranded on Santa Rosa Island in the Gulf of Mexico in 1912/13. In 1916, she was bought by Captain George Santa Cruz of Mobile, Alabama, who at the same time bought two other wrecks, the Avenger, and the Mary C. Hale (which had been at the bottom of Mobile harbour for ten years). I have been unable to find out if Oban Bay was put back into service despite writing to Sea Breezes and Ships Monthly magazines. However, in November 1916, a huge hurricane struck the Gulf of Mexico, so she may have been lost. I want to know if the ship ever went to sea again and was she renamed. Thank you, Mike.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Mar 26, 2005 12:49:30 GMT -6
Mike later reported that he was able to solve the mystery of the Oban Bay. One of our website visitors named Dennis sent Mike an excerpt from the book Pioneering in the Panhandle by William Wells, who lived opposite Santa Rosa Island when the hurricane struck and who described the fate of the Oban Bay. Thank you, Dennis! ~ Diane
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