Dominion

A four-masted steel barque built in 1891 by W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland.
Her dimensions were: 89,61×13,10×7,31 meters [294'0"×43'0"×24'0"] and tonnage: 2538 GRT and 2398 NRT. Rigged with nothing above double top- and top-gallant sails, i.e. "baldhead" rig.
Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barques Republic and Nation.

1891 December: Launched at the shipyard of W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, for William Thomas & Co., Liverpool. The first master was Captain William Meredith, Nefyn, Wales.
1899 January 19: Left Honolulu for Royal Roads, Vancouver, British Columbia, in ballast and has never been heard of again.

Updated 1997-01-25 by Lars Bruzelius.

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