Armadale

A four-masted iron barque built in 1887 by A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, as yard number 302. Dimensions 86,91×12,31×7,31 meters [285'2"×40'5"×23'8"] and tonnage 2015 GRT and 1960 NRT. Rigged in jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top- and topgallant sails. Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barqueBracadale (1887).

1887 March: Launched at the shipyard of A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, for J. & A. Roxburgh, Glasgow. Captain W. Duncan was given command of the new ship.
1901: Captain J.H. Stiven.
1909 March: Sold to A/S Audun (Jens Marcussen), Risør, Norway, and was renamed Audun. Her first Norwegian master was Captain O. Olsen.
1911: Registered at Lungør.
1913: Registered at Askerøen.
1916 July: Sold to Den Norske Amerikalinje, Kristiania.
1919 March: Sold to A/S Almora (A.H. Torbjørnsen), Tønsberg, but laid up at Tønsberg for three years.
1923: Sold to Petersen & Ahlbeck, Copenhagen, to be broken up.

Updated 1997-04-18 by Lars Bruzelius.

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