Lynton

A four-masted steel barque built in 1894 by R.&J. Evans & Co., Liverpool. Dimensions: 91,33×13,27×7,43 meters [299'8"×43'7"×24'5"] and tonnage: 2531 GRT and 2324 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. Lubbock says that she was rigged with double top, single topgallant sails, royal and skysails.

1894 April: Launched at the shipyard of R.&J. Evans & Co., Liverpool, for Johnston, Sproule & Co., Liverpool.
1894 December 21 - March 15: Sailed from Calcutta to Philadelphia, PA, in 94 days with a cargo of jute.
1894-1899: Captain T.G. Fraser.
1897: Sailed from Liverpool to Calcutta in 93 days.
1897/1898: Sailed from Calcutta to New York in 97 days with a cargo of jute.
1899: Sold to W. Montgomery & Co., London.
1899-1906: Captain E.G. James.
1907: Sold to Th. A. Shute, Liverpool, for 11.000.
1907-1908: Captain W. Jones.
1908 January 26 -: Sailed from Caleta Buena to Falmouth in 150 days with a cargo of nitrate.
1908 July 4 -: Sailed from Port Talbot to Mollendo in 119 days. Captain Jones died off Cape Horn.
1908: Captain Morrell.
1908: Sailed from Mollendo to Sydney in 61 days.
1908: Sailed from Necastle, NSW, to Talcahuano in 50 days.
1909 September 17 -: Sailed from Iquique to Elbe in 95 days.
1914: Sold to Robert Mattson, Mariehamn. Captain Karl August Ekblom.
1917 May 21: Sunk by a German submarine off the south of Ireland.

Updated 1997-01-03 by Lars Bruzelius.

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