Sarah Anderson (ship)
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Sarah Anderson was a British barque built in Liverpool in 1865. The ship was wrecked on 17 October 1886 en route from Coquimbo, Chile to Fleetwood, Lancashire when it ran aground on rocks near Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall.
Sarah Anderson was built in 1885 by the company Thomas Royden and Sons of Liverpool. The ship had three masts and an iron hull, measured 52.7 m long and weighed 589 tons. The crew of eleven was returning from Chile with a cargo of ore. The ship put in at Falmouth, Cornwall to await orders before leaving for Fleetwood on 13 October 1886. Aside from the sailors, there were four passengers; a woman and her two children who boarded in Chile, as well as the captain’s wife.[1]
