Austrasia

A four-mast steel barque built in 1892 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow.
Dimensions: 92,98x13,41x7,48 meters [305'1x44'0x24'7], tonnage: 2718 GRT and 2586 NRT.

1892 May: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for J. & W. Goffey, Liverpool.
1910 May 4: Sold to Aug. Bolten, Wm. Miller's Nachf., Hamburg, for £ 5200 and was renamed Gustav.
1913: Sold to Vinnen Gebr., Hamburg [Bremen?].
1914: Interned at Mejillones.
1920: (Ausgeliefert)
1927: Sold to H.W.F.M. Engel, Altona, for £ 4200 and was renamed Melbourne.
1928: Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn, for £ 4000.
1932 June 30: Run over by MT Seminole 30 nm South Fastnet and was sunk. The master and 10 of the crew was drowned while 15 were saved.

Updated 1996-12-28 by Lars Bruzelius.

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