West Ridge (ship)
Merchant ship lost in 1883 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A synthetic aperture sonar image of the wreck of West Ridge | |
History | |
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Name | West Ridge |
Completed | 1869 |
Fate | Sank July 1883 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Barque |
Length | 220 feet (70 m) |
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West Ridge is a merchant ship that was lost in July 1883 carrying coal between Liverpool and Bombay. In May 2018, it was reported that the wreck of the ship had been found in 2015 during the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. A maritime archaeologist at the Western Australia Museum said that the evidence indicated that the likely cause of the loss of the ship was an explosion.