Bermuda

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 85,39×13,61×6,92 meters [280'2×44'8×22'9] and tonnage: 2846 GRT and 2623 NRT.

Rigged in "jubilee" fashion, i.e. with nothing above double top and topgallant sails.

1893: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for P. Denniston & Co., Glasgow.
1912 May: Sold to A/S Nordhav (Carl Bech & Co.), Tvedestrand, Norway, and was renamed Nordhav. The new master of the ship was Captain Iversen.
1918 August 17: Sunk by the German submarine U 117 125 miles ESE of Cape Henry on voyage from Buenos Ayres to New York with linseed.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Tandberg, Arne: (Personal communication).
Bergen, 1997.

Updated 1997-07-01 by Lars Bruzelius.

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