The British cargo ship Lord Lansdowne was wrecked on Cobbler's Reef, Barbados, on 21st May, 1912, while on a voyage from Norfolk, Va. to Barbados carrying a cargo of coal.

 

Five years after her loss in 1912 the owners of the Lord Lansdowne, the Irish Shipowners Company, Limited, (Thomas Dixon & Sons, Belfast) went into liquidation and sold it's two remaining ships to the Head Line (Ulster SS Co.).