Barrow Shipbuilding Co.

The company was founded in 1871.

Sailing Ships

1875 British Duke 1463 tons, ship. J. Beazley & Son.
1875 Falstaff 1464 tons, ship. J. Beazley & Son.
1875 Dalecarlia 1464 tons, ship.
1875 Birker 1041 tons, ship.
1875 Western Monarch 1384 tons, ship. Royal Exchange Shipping Company.
1876 Brambletye 1543 tons, ship. W.R. Price, London.
1876 Kents Bank 1040 tons, ship.
1877 Yarkand 1352 tons, ship.
1883 Earl of Jersey 2129 tons, four-masted barque. Earl Line (D. Brown & Co.), London.
1884 Euterpe 2129 tons, four-masted barque. E. Wencke & Söhne, Hamburg.
1884 Earl of Chatham 2141 tons, four-mast barque.
1885 Drumcraig 1969 tons, four-masted barque. Gillison & Chadwick.
1887 Hainaut 1760 tons, ship. S. Speth & Co., Antwerp.
1892 Unionen 1730 tons, three-masted barque. Vestlandske Petroleum Co., Bergen.
1905 Exmouth, trainingship.
1933 Almirante Saldhana, four-masted barquentine.

The Unionen later became the Calcutta of the American Oil Company.

Peck, H.: Barrow-Built Sailing Ships.
Sea Breezes Vol. 10 (1095), pp 258-260, ill.

Updated 1996-04-15 by Lars Bruzelius