Duchalburn

A four-masted steel barque built in 1887 by Barclay Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 87,47×12,92×7,31 meters [287'0"×42'5"×24'0"] and tonnage: 2058 GRT and 1998 NRT.

Rigged with double top and topgallant sails.

1887 August: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay Curle & Co., Glasgow, for R. Shankland & Co., Greenock. To be used in the jute trade. Captain J. Canese was the first master of the ship.
1908 August: Sold to A/S Freden (Alexander Bech), Tvedestrand, Norway, and was renamed Freden. Captain P.A. Haraldsen. [Signe Andrén has 1909]
1916 June: Sold to Henscheins Rederi A/S (Johs A. Henschein), Tvedestrand, and was renamed Vestfjeld.
1917 February 20: Sunk on voyage from New Orleans to Le Havre by the German submarine UC 16. The crew was brought to the Scilly Islands in a pilot boat. [Signe André (?) has September 8]

Updated 1997-04-17 by Lars Bruzelius.

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