Celticburn

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 90,22×13,86×7,79 meters [296'0"×45'6"×25'7"] and tonnage 2655 GRT and 2500 NRT. Rigged in jubilee fashion i.e. with nothing above double top- and topgallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's fourmasted barque Springburn (1892).

1892 March: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for R. Shankland & Co., Greenock. The first master was Captain Davis.
1908: Sold to T.A. Shute, Greenock.
1917: Sold to Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co., London.
19??: Rebuilt as a motortanker and renamed Circe Shell.

Updated 1997-02-15 by Lars Bruzelius.

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