Cluny Castle

A four-masted iron ship built in 1883 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 84,24×12,54×7,31 meters [276'5"×41'2"×24'0"] and tonnage 1986 GRT and 1934 NRT. Rigged in jubilee fashion i.e. with nothing above double top- and topgallant sails.

Sistership to Hendry, Ferguson & Co's fourmasted ship Ulrica (1884).

1883 November: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for D. Currie & Co., London. The first master was Captain J. Hamilton. Used in the Australian emigrant trade.
1889: Sold to Ferguson & Letham, Greenock, and was renamed Rowena.
1897: Sold to James Rae, Greenock. Rerigged as a "baldheaded" fourmasted barque.
1901: Sold to R. Ferguson & Co., Greenock.
1905: Sold to William Thomas & Co., Liverpool.
1914: Sold to G. Stenius, Helsingfors, Finland, for £ 4500. Captain V.E Erikson.
1915 February: Came to Barbados after having lost the rigging during a voyage from Gulfport to Montevideo. Was eventually towed to Mobile, Alabama, where she was re-rigged as a "baldheaded" formasted barque.
1917: Sold to V. Sundmann, Helsingfors.
1919: Sold to Rederi AB Finlandecia, Helsingfors. Captain Karl Eklund.
1920: Laid up.
1921: Sold to J.F.Gadd, Åbo, who also served as master.
1922: Hulked in Adelaide.

Updated 1997-02-14 by Lars Bruzelius.

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