Pitlochry

A four-masted steel barque built in 1894 by A. Stephen & Sons, Dundee, as Yard No. 94. Dimensions 97,35×13,76×8,04 meters [319'5"×45'2"×26'5"] and tonnage 3111 GRT and 2972 NRT. Equipped with a "Liverpool house". Rigged in jubilee fashion i.e with nothing over double top and topgallant sails.

1894 September 14: Launched at the shipyard of A. Stephen & Sons, Dundee, for F. Laeisz, Hamburg. Assigned the German identification signal RKCM. The first master was Captain P. Opitz.
1894-1895: Master Captain Robert Hilgendorf.
1894/95: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 69 days.
1895: Sailed from Iquique to Lizard in 81 days.
1896: Master Captain Schlüter.
1896: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 74 days.
1896: Sailed from Iquique to Lizard in 81 days.
1898: Sailed from Fair Island to Philadelphia, PA, in 39 days.
1898: Sailed from Philadelphia, PA, to Hiogo in 153 days.
1900: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 75 days.
1901: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 63 days.
1902-1903: Master Captain Hinrich Nissen.
1902: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in the record time of 58 days. Equalled by the four-masted barque Placilla in 1892, the five-masted barque Potosi in 1900, the five-masted ship Preussen in 1903, the British ship Eldora in 1904, and the ship Pampa in 1905.
1905 June 29: Left Hamburg for the South American West Coast under command of Captain C.V. Jessen.
1905 September 24-25: Lost main topmast, and mizzen topgallant mast in a hurricane off Cape Horn and sailed under jury rig back to Montevideo.
1905 October 5: Arrived to Montevideo under tow of the British steamship Jumna.
1908 [?]: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 58 days.
1908: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 67 days.
1909: Sailed from Tocopilla to Hamburg in 63 days.
1912: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 79 days.
1913: Sailed from Lizard to Valparaiso in 78 days.
1913 November 28: Was run down by the Elder Line steamship Boulama in the English Channel and sank at 47°20' N, 8°06' W. The crew was saved by the Boulama and was brought to Liverpool.

Updated 1997-10-10 by Lars Bruzelius.

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