Centesima

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by R. Williamson & Son, Workington. Dimensions 93,87×14,07×7,82 meters [308'0"×46'2"×25'8"] and tonnage 2949 GRT and 2796 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top- and topgallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's fourmast barque Iranian (1895).

1893 September: Launched at the shipyard of R. Williamson & Son, Workington, as Yard No. 100 for R. Williamson & Son, Workington. The first master was Captain T.B. Peters.
1901: Sold to Visurgis AG, Bremen, and renamed Nauarchos.
1909: The rigging was destroyed by fire while in Antofagasta and the ship was subsequently reduced to a hulk.

Updated 1997-01-12 by Lars Bruzelius.

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