Cap Horn

A four-masted steel barque built in 1888 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 93,13×13,56×7,36 meters [305'7"×44'6"×24'2"] and tonnage 2626 GRT and 2608 NRT. Equipped with cellular double-bottom water ballast tanks with a capacity of 601 tons in addition to 1200 tons in internal tanks. Rigged with royal sails over double top- and topgallant sails.

1888 October: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for Ant. Dom. Bordes et fils, Dunkerque. The first master was Captain Leuguen.
1892 February 7: Grounded in a fog near Calais when arriving from Iquique with nitrate.
1910 January 28: Collided with the German steamer Heinrich Horn and lost her bowsprit while cutting off the steamer's funnel.
1919 July 3 — November 29: Left Antofagasta for La Pallice with a cargo of 4.200 tons of nitrate and was posted overdue in November. She eventually arrived at her destination after 149 days.
1923: Broken up in Belgium.

Updated 1996-12-30 by Lars Bruzelius.

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