Dirigo

A four-masted steel barque built in 1894 by Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME, to the design of J.F. Waddington, Liverpool, at a total cost of $157.000. The steel was delivered from Messrs. David Clolville & Sons, Motherwell, Scotland.
Dimensions: 95,09×13,73×7,77 meters [312'0"×45'1"×25'6"] and tonnage: 3005 GRT and 2856 NRT. Rigged with sky and royal sails over dubbel top-sails and single topgallant sails.

1894 February 3: Launched at the shipyard of Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME, for their own account.
1894-1902: Captain George W. Goodwin, Calais, ME.
1894 April 26 - October 2: Sailed from Philadelphia to Hiogo (Kobe) in 159 days with a cargo of case oil.
1895 March 5 - July 23: Sailed from Hiogo to New York round Cape Horn in 140 days.
1895 October 3 - March 4: Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 153 days with 4498 tons of general cargo.
1896 April 1 - April 16: Sailed from San Francisco in ballast to Honolulu in 15 days.
1897: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 107 days.
1897: Sailed from San Francisco to Liverpool in 162 days.
1902 January 23 - May 9: Sailed from Hong Kong in ballast to Honolulu in 106 days. According to the log the Dirigo had sailed 4336 miles.
1902 June 12 - November 27: Sailed from Honolulu to Delaware Breakwater in 168 days with a cargo of 5069 short tons of sugar (4472 long tons).
1903-1904: Captain Lewis S. Colley.
1903 January 5 - May 6: New York to Sydney in 121 days.
1903 June 26 - August 21: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Honolulu in 56/57 days with a cargo of 4585 tons of coal.
1903 October 1 - March 4: Sailed from Honolulu to Delaware Breakwater in 154 days with a cargo of sugar.
1904-1909: Captain George W. Goodwin.
1904 May 9 - September 15: Sailed from New York to Shanghai in 126 days with a cargo of case oil.
1908 October 30 - December 20: Sailed from Baltimore with a cargo of coal for Honolulu but had to put into Rio de Janeiro for repairs of a cracked hull plate.
1908 January 26 - May 15: Sailed from Rio de Janeiro to Honolulu in 109 days.
1909-1911: Captain Omar E. Chapman.
1909 June 26 - October 23: Sailed from Honolulu to Delaware Breakwater in 119 days with a cargo of sugar.
1911-1917: Captain Walter M. Mallett.
1915 January 17 - April 26: Sailed from Philadelphia to Japan via the Panama Canal in 97 days from Henlopen, 79 days from off Christobal.
1915 August 11 - October 2: Sailed from Kobe to Port Townsend.
1915: Sold to G.W. McNear, Inc.
1915 October 15: Sailed from Seattle for Kalmar, Sweden, with a cargo of barley. [Fairburn has October 14]
1916 March 2: Arrested by a British patrol ship and was brought to Lerwick, Shetland Islands, where the cargo was confiscated as it was believed that the barley would be trans-shipped from Sweden to Germany.
1916 March 10: Sold to C.C. Mengel & Brother, Inc., Louisville, KY.
1916 November: Sold to Axim Transportation Co., Anchorage, KY, but had Pensacola, FL, as homeport.
1917: Captain John A. Urquhart, Brooklyn, NY.
1917 May 4: Sailed from New York for Le Havre.
1917 May 31: Sunk by explosives by a German submarine 6 miles SW of the Eddystone Rock lighthouse.

Updated 1997-02-24 by Lars Bruzelius.

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