Corunna

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by D. & W. Henderson & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 89,30×13,10×7,41 meters [293'0"×43'0"×24'4"] and tonnage 2432 GRT and 1268 NRT. Rigged with double top and topgallant sails and royal sails.

1893 August 30: Launched at the shipyard of D. & W. Henderson & Co., Glasgow, as Yard No. 369 for Corunna Sailing Ship Co. Ltd. (J. Hardie & Co. mgrs), Glasgow. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 102633. The first master was Captain J. Robson late of the same owner's fourmasted barque Talavera (1882).
1893 October: Completed.
1893-1894: Sailed from Glasgow to Rio de Janeiro in 40 days.
Sailed from Rio de Janeiro to Melbourne in 55 days.
Sailed from Melbourne to London in 89 days.
1901: Sailed from Liverpool to Sydney in 94 days.
1904 June: Captain McNeil was replaced by Captain John Mason, late of the fullrigged ship Albuera.
1904 July 24: Left Antwerpen for Port Townsend, WA, under tow. Drifted onto the Wandelaar Light Vessel as the pilot ordered the cable to be cast off during a squall.
1904 September 1: Stranded at Miramar south of Rio de la Plata. The Court of Inquiry found the master was to be blamed for not having taken the necessary soundings.
1904: Hulked in Montevideo.
1917: Sold to Société Boillart de Boisguilbert, Paris, for £ 70.000 and was renamed La Epoca. The ship was registered in Uruguay. Was re-rigged and chartered to Oriental Navigation Corp., New York.
1917 October 29: Sunk by the German submarine U 93 at 45°10'N and 1°45'W.

There is a picture of Corunna on p 338 of Sea Breezes Vol. IX (1926-27).

Updated 1997-01-24 by Lars Bruzelius.

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