Placilla

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by J.C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde. Dimensions 95,82×13,58×8,04 meters [314'5"×44'7"×26'5"] and tonnage 2895 GRT and 2780 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and top-gallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's fourmasted barque Pisagua.

1892 February 22: Launched at the shipyard of J.C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, for F. Laeisz, Hamburg. Assigned the German signal RJLM.
1892—1894: Captain Robert Hilgendorf.
1894—1901: Captain O. Schmidt.
1901 February 23: Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg.
1903 March 18: Renamed Optima.
1905 January 6: Left Hamburg with a cargo of cokes for Santa Rosalia, Mexico, under command of Captain Butz.
1905 January 18: Stranded at Haisbro Sands, Norfolk.

References:

Four- and five-masted ships, general references.
Combes, Jas.: The Wreck of the Optima. Rough Work with the Tugs and Lifeboats in the North Sea.
Sea Breezes Vol. XVIII (1934), pp 294-296, ??-??.

Updated 1997-05-08 by Lars Bruzelius.

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