Glaucus

A four-masted steel ship built in 1889 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 84,90×12,51×7,36 meters [278'7"×41'1"×24'2"] and tonnage: 2056 GRT, 1999 NRT and 1935 tons under deck.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. Later re-rigged as a four-masted barque.

1889 March: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for the "Golden Fleece Line" (A. & J.H. Carmichael & Co.), Greenock. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 93214 and signal LCFJ.
1889-1896: In command of Captain George Cook.
1889: Sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta in 86 days with a cargo of salt at 27s 6d per ton.
1892: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 105 days.
1896: Captain Cook was replaced with Captain E.C. Bennet, late of the same owner's fullrigged ship Talus.
1898: Sailed from Fredrikstad, Norway, to Melbourne in 93 days.
1898: Sailed from San Francisco to Falmouth in 108 days.
1899: Sailed from Melbourne to Lizard in 85 days.
1905 January 6 - April 26: Sailed from Astoria, OR, to Queenstown for orders in 109 days.
1905: Sold to Ant. Dom. Bordes et fils, Dunkerque, and was renamed Almendral. Used in the South Amercian nitrate trade. In command of Captain J. Layec.
1909: Sailed from Tyne to Valparaiso in 76 days.
1921: Sailed from Dunkirk to Iquique via Taltal in 89 days.
1921: Laid up at the end of the year.
1923: Sold to be broken up.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Lubbock, Basil: The Last of the Windjammers.
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1975.
Villiers, Alan & Picard, Henri: The Bounty Ships of France. The Story of the French Cape Horn Sailing Ships. Patrick Stephens, London, 1972.

Updated 2001-03-09 by Lars Bruzelius.

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