Daylight

A four-masted steel barque built in 1902 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, at a cost of $ 270.000 (approx. £ 54.000). Dimensions 107,10×14,95×8,58 meters [351'5"×49'1"×28'2"] and tonnage 3756 GRT, 3599 NRT and 3651 tons under deck. Rigged with with royal sails above double top and topgallant sails. Together with her near sister-ship Brilliant the largest four-masted barques ever built. She had two decks and was equipped with a donkey engine and two steam winches.

1902 January: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for Anglo-American Oil Co., London. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 114182. Captain J. Reade was given command of the new ship.
1903: Captain H. Nickerson, Nova Scota.
1906: Was scuttled and sunk in the harbour of Yokkaichi, Japan, to extinguish a fire onboard.
1906: Sailed from Kobe to New York in 119 days. She was 10° north of the Equator 84 days out from Kobe.
1906 May: Captain John McBryde late of the same owner's four-masted barque Eclipse replaced Captain Nickerson who left to take command of the William P. Frye.
1907 May: Sailed from New York with a cargo of 35.000 cases of kerosene oil for Melbourne where she arrived after 79 days.
1908: Sailed from Vizagapatam to Philadelphia in 145 days [with a cargo of manganese ore?].
1908: Sailed from Hong Kong with a cargo of tea and maté to Cape Henry in 109 days.
1909 July: Sailed from New York to Anjer in 86 days.
1910: Rebuild in New York to carry oil in bulk in the main tank.
1910 December 24: Sailed from New York to Bombay in 130 days.
1911: Sailed from New York to Bombay.
1911 June 24: Sailed from Bombay to Diamond Shoals in 115 days.
1912: Sailed from Hong Kong to the Five Fathom Bank Lightship, Delaware Capes, in 87 days.
1912: Sold to Tank Storage & Carriage Co., London. Captain C. Anderson.
1917: Sold to Standard Transportation Co., Hong Kong. Captain H.A Smith.
1920 October: Sailed from San Francisco to Manila with 150.235 cases of kerosene.
1921 June: Arrived to San Francisco from Manila with 1428 tons of copra.
1921: Sold to Charles Nelson & Co., San Francisco, for $ 22.500. To be used in the timber trade, but her deep tanks made her less suitable for loading long timber and she was laid up in Oakland Creek, San Francisco Bay.
1924 April: Sold to the Daylight Ship Co. Ltd. (James Griffiths & Sons), Seattle. Rigged down to her lower masts and used as barge to carry gypsum from the Santa Marcos Island to Long Beach, CA.
1930: Captain W. Stone.
c1934-1941: Laid up in Winslow, WA.
1941: Sold to Murray Simonsen, Brazil,
1942: Rerigged as an aux. four-masted barquentine and given the name Tangara. Equipped with a pair of 400 hp Skandia diesel engines.
1954: Broken up.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Colton, J. Ferrell: First-Hand Answers to Some Queries.
Sea Breezes Vol. 6 (1948), pp 236-239.

Updated 1998-02-01 by Lars Bruzelius.

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