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A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 86,32×13,10×6,36 meters [283'3"×43'0"×24'2"] and tonnage: 2433 GRT and 2305 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

1892 June: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for J. Boyd, Glasgow. Captain McCrone.
1911 April 18: Sold to August Bolten, Wm. Millers Nachfolger, Hamburg, and was renamed Ulrich. Assigned the official German signal RQSG. The new German measurements were 83,78×12,88×7,45 meters and 2269 GRT.
1911-1914: Captain Oltmann Dieckmann.
1913: Sold to by the Vinnen Gebrüder, Hamburg.
1914-10-20: Captured by the HMS Venus.
1915: Condemned by a British Prize Court.
1915 May: Sold to A/S Sydnæs (Arne Larsen), Bergen, Norway, and was renamed Sydnæs.
1916 January: Sold to A/S Christianssand (Sven O. Stray & Co.), Kristiansand.
1920 March 2: Sprung a leak and was abandoned in sinking condition east of Cape Virginia on voyage from Norfolk, VA, to Montevideo.

References:

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

Updated 1997-08-19 by Lars Bruzelius.

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