Strathmore (ship)
{{Short description|British ship}}
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Strathmore was a British ship in the 1870s.
On 1 July 1875, while on a voyage from Dundee in the United Kingdom to Otago, New Zealand, the ship was wrecked off the Crozet Islands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Strathmore |date=23 February 1876 |issue=28562 |page=8 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Strathmore |date=28 February 1876 |issue=28563 |page=4 |column=F }} The passengers and crew were considered dead after the ship did not arrive at its final destination. However, 44 crew and passengers managed to survive on a small island by eating eggs and geese, albatrosses, and other seabirds. They also ate root vegetables and fish.{{Cite news |url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMMAAS01:210137066:mpeg21:a00007|work= Algemeene visscherij-courant|title=Varia. |date=2 April 1876|via=Delpher|language=nl}} Five people died because of the low temperature at the island.
After seven months, they were rescued on 22 January 1876 by the American whaler Young Phoenix - captained by Civil War hero David Lewis Gifford.{{Cite web |url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre02Whit-t1-body-d2-d1-d1.html|work= Victoria University of Wellington |title=Wreck of the Ship Strathmore}}{{Cite news|url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/1876-inspirational-survivors/6IXMO2456IIEJQ2TCZKAYQY3RQ/ |work= New Zealand Herald |title= 1876: Inspirational survivors|date=10 October 1876}}{{Cite web |url=http://crozetvv.free.fr/histoire_naufrages3.php|work= Crozet|title=Le naufrage du Strathmore (1875)|language=fr}}
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