King's County

A four-masted wooden ship built in 1890 by E. Cox, Kingsport, Nova Scotia. Dimensions: 77,72×13,83×7,79 meters [255'0"×45'5"×25'7"] and tonnage: 2300 GRT and 2225 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

1890: Launched at the shipyard of E. Cox, Kingsport, Nova Scotia, for C.R. Burgess, Windsor, Nova Scotia. Captain M. Munro.
1895: Reduced to barque rig.
1911: Lost her mizzen mast and yards, which was replaced with a fore-and-aft rigged mast. The resulting rig was that of a four-masted "jackass" barque.
1919: Stranded on the English Bank outside Montevideo and subsequently broken up at that city.

Updated 1998-11-23 by Lars Bruzelius.

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