James Kerr
A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool.
Dimensions: 89,52×12,54×7,43 meters [293'9"×41'2"×24'5"], tonnage: 2420 GRT and 2281 NRT.
Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.
Sister ship to the same owner's Fannie Kerr (1892).
- 1892 August
- Launched at the shipyard of T. Royden & Sons,
Liverpool, for E.R. Peel & G. McAllester & Sons, Liverpool.
- 1905
- Sold to
William Thomas & Sons, Liverpool.
- 1910 March 29
- Sold to
Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and was renamed Isebek.
- 1914
- Interned in Valparaiso during the war.
- 1920
- Handed over to the victorious powers as war damage compensation.
- 1923
- Sold to Soffia Gonzalez & Co., Valparaiso.
- 1926 January 19
- Stranded at Chanaral.
Updated 1997-02-21 by Lars Bruzelius.
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