Dunfermline

A four-masted steel barque built in 1890 by W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool. Dimensions 94,02×13,76×7,64 meters [308'6"×45'2"×25'1"] and tonnage 2902 GRT and 2773 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double top and topgallant sails.

1890 September: Launched at the shipyard of W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool, for Macvicar, Marshall & Co's Palace Line, Liverpool. Captain B.S. Forbes.
1891 Oct 24 - Feb 27: Sailed with a cargo of coal from Birkenhead to San Francisco in 126 days. Matched the American three-skysail-yard clipper ship R.D. Rice which left Birkenhead for San Francisco two days earlier.
1897: Captain John Woodward assumed command of the ship.
1897: Sailed from Liverpool to Calcutta in 95 days.
1899: Sailed from Barry to Port Pirie in 77 days.
1905 November 28: Sailed from Tacoma for Belfast.
1905 December: Captain Woodward was washed overboard and drowned. The first mate David Bailie assumed command.
1906 January 20: The third mate fell overboard West of Cape Horn but was recovered alive.
1911: Sold to E.C. Schramm & Co., Bremen, for £6150 and was renamed Carl Rudgert Vinnen.
1913: Sold to F.A. Vinnen & Co., Bremen.
1914 August 4: Confiscated by the British at Newcastle, NSW.
1915: Taken over by the British Admiralty, and was renamed Burrowa.
1915 April 27: Sunk by a German submarine some 60 miles West of the Scilly Islands.

Reference:

D.S. Forbes: A "Clipper" Race. Dunfermline v. R.D. Rice.
Sea Breezes Vol. XXI (1936), pp 290-293.

Updated 1996-09-22 by Lars Bruzelius.

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