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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: 2540 GRT and 2401 NRT. Rigged with double top- and top-gallant sails, i.e. "baldhead" rig.
Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barques Republic and Dominion.

1891 July: Launched at the shipyard of W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, for William Thomas & Co., Liverpool. The master was Captain Robert Wynne.
1892 March 24: Left Rangoon for Bremen with a cargo of rice and was never heard of again. Believed to have been lost in a hurricane off Mauritius.

Updated 1997-01-25 by Lars Bruzelius.

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