Ernest Siegfried

A four-masted steel barque built in 1898 by Forges et chantiers de la Méiterranée, Graville-Le Havre. Dimensions: 95,09×13,81×7,46 meters [312'0"×45'4"×24'6"] and tonnage: 3214 GRT and 2429 NRT. [Henri Picard gives 3104 GRT and 2754 NRT in his The Bounty Ships of France.] Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barques Emile Renouf (1897) and Emile Siegfried (1898).

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

1898 April: Launched at the shipyard of Forges et chantiers de la Méiterranée, Graville-Le Havre, for E. Corbler & Co., Le Havre. Used in the New Caledonia nickel-ore trade. Captain C. Valteau.
1909 April: Sold to Société Anon. des Voiliers de Noumea, Le Havre, and renamed Sainte Catherine. Captain G.A. Corée.
1911 October: The cotton cargo caught fire while in Le Havre.
1911: Sold to Société Navale de l'Oceanie, Le Havre.
1912: Sold to A.D. Bordes et fils, Le Havre, and renamed Seine. Captain Langhétée.
1923: Sold to Bilbao to be broken up.

Updated 1996-11-02 by Lars Bruzelius.

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