Pointe D’Esny – Ship Wreck of the Dalblair – 1902

Pointe D’Esny – Ship Wreck of the Dalblair – 1902 Stock Photo
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alberto / Alamy Stock Photo

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M0E2GY

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51.3 MB (1.1 MB Compressed download)

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5184 x 3456 px | 43.9 x 29.3 cm | 17.3 x 11.5 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

20 January 2018

Location:

Pointe d'Esny, Grand Port District, Mauritius

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Pointe D’Esny – Ship Wreck of the Dalblair – 1902. The Mauritian Ocean Territory floor counts as much as over 600 ships remains comprising of wreckage, retirement, and war victims. The story of the Dalblair is another unfortunate shipwreck that occured in 1902. The “Dalblair” was a steel ship of 1474 tons built in 1895 in Scotland (town of Troon) by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company. Crash reports mention that the vessel left Cardiff for Mauritius with a cargo of coals on the 14th November 1901. After 82 days at sea, on the 4th of February the ship reached the south east seas of Mauritius and was moving in a northern direction with a S.S.W wind. There was no land in site yet and the vessel was about 90 miles from the Ile aux Fouquets Lighthouse.