Arracan

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton.
Dimensions: 88,76×12,82×7,43 meters [291'3×42'1×24'5], tonnage: 2282 GRT and 2222 NRT.

1892 May: Launched at the shipyard of Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton, for British and Eastern Shipping Co., Liverpool.
1908: En route Port Talbot - Iquique, the cargo of coal caught fire and the ship put into Montevideo to put out the fire.
1908: Sold to Lewis, Heron & Co., Liverpool, while still in Montevideo.
1913 February 16: Left Port Talbot for Pisagua with a cargo of coal.
1914 January 14: Sold to Hans Hinrich Schmidt, Hamburg, and renamed Carla.
1920: Delivered as war damage compensation to ???.
1922: Sold to Schröder, Hölken & Fischer, Hamburg, and was renamed Fehmarn.
1924 October: Broken up.

Updated 1997-02-22 by Lars Bruzelius

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