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An iron steamship built in 1853 by Laird & Co., Birkenhead, Liverpool. Dimensions: 74,98×9,14×6,70 meters [246'0"×30'0"×22'0"] and tonnage: 1250 GRT and 1116 NRT.

1853: Launched at the shipyard of Laird & Co., Birkenhead, Liverpool, for ???.
18__: Sold to Spain and was renamed La Cubana.
1865 March 29: Sold to R.M. Sloman & Co., Hamburg, and was re-built as a four-masted ship and renamed Palmerstone. Assigned the German signal RBDH. The new German measurements were 78,32×9,23×7,07 meters and 1174 GRT.
1866-1874: Captain P. Kölln.
1874-1875: Captain E.H. Sutor.
1876: Re-rigged as a four-masted barque.
1878-1884: Captain A.B.L. Bohmann.
1888: Captain A. Cordes.
1890 July 14: Sold to Brückner & Albers, Hamburg.
1890-1894: Captain F.G. Crantz.
1891: Rounded the Cape Horn from 50°S in the Atlantic to 50°S in the Pacific in 9 days.
1892/93: Sailed from Lizard to Santos in 62 days.; Sailed from Santos to Pensacola in 52 days.; Sailed from Pensacola to Scilly Islands in 53 days.
1894 September 10: Sold to A. Pinceti, Genoa, and was renamed Federico. Captain Massa.
1899 January 18: Arrived to Greenock after having received severe storm damage on voyage from Pensacola to Genoa with timber.
1899 March: Condemned in Greenock.

Updated 1997-02-22 by Lars Bruzelius.

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