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A four-masted steel barque built in 1902 by A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 99,84×14,14×8,04 meters [327'7"×46'5"×26'2"] and tonnage 3090 GRT and 2971 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double top and top-gallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barque Eclipse (1902).

1902 April
Launched at the shipyard of A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow, for Anglo-American Oil Co., London.
1912
Sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 15.000 and was renamed Parma.
1914
Interned at Iquique at the ourbreak of the First World War.
1920
Assigned as war damage reparations to Great Britain.
1921 November 8
Sold back to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 10.000.
1924-1926
In command of Captain Töpper.
1926-1927
In command of Captain Holst.
1926
Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 86 days.
1927
Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 88 days.
1928-1929
In command of Captain Rohwer.
1928
Sailed from Land's End to Talcahuano in 70 days.
1929-1930
In command of Captain Brockhöft.
1931
Sold to Ruben De Cloux and Alan Villiers, Mariehamn, for RM 34.000.
1933
Sailed from Port Victoria to Falmouth in 83 days.
1936
Sold after a minor accident in the harbour of Glasgow and was rigged off and used as hulk at Haifa.
1938
Broken up.

Updated 1997-02-15 by Lars Bruzelius.


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