Hans

A four-masted steel barque built by W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 102,22×14,24×8,04 meters [335'5×46'9×26'5] and tonnage 3102 GRT and 2869 NRT.

1904
Launched at the shipyard of W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow.
1904 March 22
Bought by G.J.H. Siemers & Co., Hamburg. Command was given to by Captain Jürgen Friedrich Külsen (1867-1927), previously master of Reederei B. Wencke Söhne's four-masted barque Hera ex Richard Wagner (1886).
1904 April 24
Left Port Talbot with a cargo of 4920 tons of coal for Iquique.
1904 May 15
The cargo of coal exploded and caught fire at 28°48' N and 18°31' W in sight of the Palma Island. Returned to Falmouth after the fire had been put out and continued to Greenock for repairs.
1904 September 2
The trip to Iquique was resumed now with only 2030 tons of coal.
1905
Sailed from Port Talbot to Pisagua in 73 days.
1905/06
Sailed from Caleta Buena to Lizard in 79 days.
1906
Sailed from Junin to Lizard in 98 days.
1907
Sailed from Port Talbot to Iquique in 89 days.
1907
Sailed from Iquique to Newcastle, NSW, in 58 days.
1913
Sailed from Taltal to Antwerpen in 86 days.
1914
Sailed from Hamburg to Santa Rosalia, Mexico, in 143 days.
1914
Interned for the duration of the war at Santa Rosalia.
1917
Confiscated by the United States.
1920
Sold to Robert Dollar & Co., San Francisco, CA, and renamed Mary Dollar.
1934
Sold to A. Charles Watt, Long Beach, CA, after having been laid up at Alameda for some time. To be used as a restaurant ship. Was rigged off and renamed Tango. Used as a gambling ship off Long Beach, CA.
1942
Sold to Transatlantik Navigation Co., New York, and re-rigged as a six-masted barquentine.
1943 February
Sold to Portuguese owners in Lourenço Marques and was re-named Cidade do Porto and re-rigged to a six-masted schooner.
1945 August
Lost most of her sails in a storm off East London and she had to be towed to Durban by the tug Sir William Hoy for repairs.
1948
Broken up at Lisbon.

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