Bannockburn

A four-masted steel ship built in 1886 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 87,47×12,92×7,33 meters [287'0"×42'5"×24'1"] and tonnage 2068 GRT and 2000 NRT. Rigged in "jubilee" fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top- and topgallant sails.

1885 April: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & So., Glasgow, for R. Shankland & Co., Greenock.
1894: Re-reigged as a fourmasted barque.
1905: Sold to Akties. Bannockburn (Leif Gundersen), Porsgrund, for £ 5550.
1912: Sold to Gundersen & Gjertsen, Porsgrund.
1915 September: Renamed Leif Gundersen.
1917 March 24: Arrested by the French auxiliary cruiser La Champagne and taken to Glasgow.
1917 May 10: Was declared a French prize and was renamed Atlas of Lorient.
1917 July 17: Sailed under command of Captain Le Squeren from Glasgow in ballast for the West Indies and was never heard of again. An unidentified four-masted barque was sunk by the German submarine U-30 200 miles west of the Fastnet on July 28 1917 and it is generally believed that this barque was the Atlas.

Updated 1997-04-17 by Lars Bruzelius.

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