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This section provides insights into the book, with information being progressively updated for the twelve four-mast sailing vessels, as follows:
Note: Launch dates shown in brackets
- County of Peebles (5th July 1875 – extant as breakwater 2024)
- County of Caithness (18th Sep’ 1876 – scuttled 2 April 1931)
- County of Inverness (14th Jan’1877 – raised from being sunk, then broken c1947)
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- County of Kinross (7th Feb’1878 – extant to 1951, then lost from view on River Plate)
- County of Cromarty (31st Jan’1878 – stranded 8th July 1878 off Rio de Sol (Brazil)
- County of Dumfries (17th Mar’1878 -stranded 6th Nov 1906 at Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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- County of Selkirk (15th Oct’1878 – posted missing en route Calcutta – Falmouth, 31 Dec’ 1895)
- County of Haddington(4th Dec’1878 -posted missing en route NY – Shanghai, after 2nd February 1901)
- County of Aberdeen (24th Mar’1879 – posted missing Barry – Calcutta, 28 Dec’ 1894
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- County of Edinburgh (30th Jun’1885 – wrecked at South Rock, Newcastle NI, 7th Nov’1916)
- County of Roxburgh (3rd Jun’1866 – stranded at Takaroa Atoll, Central Pacific, 8th Feb’1906)
- County of Linlithgow (May’1887 – several changes of rig / propulsion, lost from records c1948).
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