Ancona

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by Russell & Co, Greenock, at a cost of £ 26.000. Dimensions 85,39×13,61×6,92 meters [280'2"×44'8"×22'9"] and tonnage 2852 GRT and 2570 NRT. Fitted with water ballast tanks with a capacity of 1350 tons. Rigged in Jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top- and topgallant sails.

Sister ship to the Bermuda built in the same year.

1893 November: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Greenock, for The Ship Ancona Co. (G.T. Soley & Co.), Liverpool. Captain T. Long.
1895: Sailed from Astoria to Queenstown in 185 days.
1906: Placed under the management of Lang & Fulton, Greenock.
1906 November: Lost in the Bay of Biscay due to fire on voyage from Antwerpen to San Francisco.

Updated 1997-04-19 by Lars Bruzelius.

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