Miltonburn

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow.
Dimensions: 90,52×13,76×7,79 meters [297'0"×45'2"×25'7"], tonnage: 2663 GRT and 2499 NRT.

Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barque Otterburn (1893).

1893 August: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for R. Shankland & Co., Greenock.
1907 August 7: Sold to Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and was renamed Goldbek. [Arne Tandberg has 1908]
1914 September 9: Arrested by the British cruiser HMS Talbot in the North Atlantic and brought to London where she was confiscated.
1915 January: Sold to A/S Christianssand (Sven O. Stray & Co.), Kristiansand, Norway, and was renamed Steinsund.
1920 April 3: Left Bordeaux for Newport News, VA, in ballast and disappeared en route.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Tandberg, Arne: (Personal communication).
Bergen, 1997.

Updated 1997-02-21 by Lars Bruzelius.

Sjöhistoriska Samfundet | The Maritime History Virtual Archives | Ships | Four-masted ships & barques | Search.