Barquentines

The barquentine is a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with at least three masts of which the fore-mast is completely square-rigged and the other masts fore-and-aft.

Three-masted Barquentines:

A three-masted barquentine is usually called a skonert or skonertskepp in the Scandinavain languages. In German a corresponding rig would be called schonerbark.

Year	Name	GRT NRT	Where	Builder
1819
1830	Bonanza		Whitehaven
1838	Loyalist		Yarmouth, NS
1850	Fanny		Bremen
1851	Margaretha		Blankenese
1853	Mary Stockton		Manitowoc
1855	Kelpie			Alexander Hall & Sons
1861	Eident		Kingston-on-Spey
1863	Cazique		Bideford
1865	Craig Ewan		Peterhead	Carnegie & Matthew [or Simpson]
1867	Union		Garmouth	James Geddie
1867	John Wesley			Alexander Hall & Sons
1868	Sly Boots		Dartmouth	Phillips
1869	Chrysolite		Whitehaven	Shepherd & Leech
1869	Zephyr		Geddie
1870	Girl of the Period		Hayle	Harvey & Co.
1872	Fiery Cross		Geddie
1873	Bootle		Whitehaven
1873	Lydia Cardell		Appledore	Cook
1873	Irton		Whitehaven
1874	Coronella		Geddie
1875	Minnie	161 tons	Bideford	George Cox & Son
1875	Lord Tredegar		Barnstaple	Westacott
1875	May Cory	163 tons	Bideford	Johnson
1875	Ocean Ranger		Appledore	Cook
1875	Osburgha	346	Glasgow	Alexander Stephen & Sons
1876	Lady Quirk ex Raymond
1877	Vigilant		Dundas, PEI	John M'Dougall, 398 tons
1878	Gaerwen
>1879	Hilda	233
1880	Slyboots
	Waterwitch
	Cap Pilar
1887	Sigyn
1893	Sydney Belle	204
1932	Mercator

Four-masted Barquentines:

Years	Name	Built
1801-1810	Transit	1800
1888	Tacora	1888
1903	Mozart	1903
1903	Beetoven	1903

Jackass barques

Years	Name	Built
1854	Argo	1854
1880	Omeo	1858
1854	City of Adelaide	1854
18__	Hattie_S_Bassie	18__
1892	Olympic	1854

Five-masted Barquentines:

Years	Name	Built
1800-1801	Transit	1800
1919	Forest Bride	1919
1919	Forest Friend	1919
1919	Forest Dream	1919
1920	Kate G. Pedersen

The fourth ship, the Forest Dream, was converted to a steamer before launching.

Six-masted Barquentines:

Years	Name	Built
1941	Tango ex Mary Dollar, ex four-masted barque Hans	1904

Re-rigged ships:

Years	Name	Built	Originally
1903	Everett G. Griggs ex Lord Wolseley ex Columbia ex *Lord Wolseley*	1883	four-masted barque	Re-named E.R. Sterling in 1910.
1916	City of Sydney	1875	steamship

Bibliography

Updated 1999-02-18 by Lars Bruzelius

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