Alcides

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Alloa. Dimensions 95,11×13,15×7,41 meters [312'1"×43'2"×24'4"] and tonnage 2704 GRT and 2492 NRT. Rigged with with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

1892 August 10: Launched at the shipyard of Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Alloa, for Ship Alcides Co. Ltd. (J.R. Haws & Co.), Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 99445. Captain L.C. Dart late of the same owner's four-masted barque Semantha was given command of the new vessel.
1892 August 11 — November 25: Sailed from San Francisco to London in 105 days.
1894 December 18 - March 11: Sailed from Hong Kong to New York in 83 days.
1900: Sold to Anglo-American Oil Co. (J. McDonald), London. To be used in the case-oil trade.
1904 October: Dis-masted in the Sunda Straits during a typhoon. The four-masted barque Robert Rickmers which had been spoken to on October 8 was most probably lost in the same typhoon.
1911 April — 1912 March: In command of Captain John C.B. Jarvis, Dundee.
1912 December: Sold to A/S Alcides (O.N. Henriksen), Risør, Norway, for £ 6000. Captain J.M. Skaugen.
1913 December: Sold to A/S Alcides (A/S Henriksen & Skaugen), Risør.
1916 September: Sold to Skibs A/S Noreg (Lauritz Sundt & J.M. Holst), Kristiania, Norway, for £ 66.750. Captain H. Halvorsen.
1917 July: Torpedoed by the German submarine U-54 off Tory Island, Ireland, with the loss of the entire crew.
1918 March 27: Entered as "untraced" in Lloyd's records. [Lloyd's War Losses. The First World War. Casualties to Shipping through Enemy Causes 1914-1918]

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Johnson, J.E.: Anglo-American Oil Co.'s Sailing Fleet. Some Reminiscences.
Sea Breezes Vol. XVIII (1934), pp 76-78.
Tandberg, Arne: (Personal communication).
Bergen, 1997.

Updated 1998-02-01 by Lars Bruzelius.

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