Glenbreck

A four-masted steel barque built in 1890 by R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 82,62×12,19×7,16 meters [271'1"×40'0"×23'6"] and tonnage: 1900 GRT and 1786 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

1890 July: Launched at the shipyard of R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow, for W. Thorburn, R.R. Patterson & Co., Greenock. Captain A. Burd.
1901: Sold to J.W. Söderlund, Raumo, Finland. Captain G.A. Cavenius.
1901 May 18: Left Tyne with a cargo of coal for Valparaiso and disappeared at sea. Captain Robert Hilgendorf in the five-masted barque Potosi later reported having seen the burnt out wreck of a fourmasted ship floating on the starboard side still smouldering at 27°3'S, 24°6'W.

Updated 1997-05-08 by Lars Bruzelius.

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