Prince Robert

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool.
Dimensions: 93,87×13,71×7,43 meters [308'0"×45'0"×24'5"], tonnage: 2846 GRT and 2654 NRT.

1893 May: Launched at the shipyard of T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool, for Moran, Galaway & Co., Liverpool.
1893: Sold to P.H. Røer, Christiania.
1900: Sold to J. Andressen, Christiania [Oslo], Norway.
1906: Sold to A. Andressen, Christiania.
1911 June 6: Sold to Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and renamed Thielbek. Assigned the German signal RQTN. The new German measurements were 91,31×13,75×7,55 meters and 2831 GRT.
1912-1914: Captain A. Bergmann late first mate of H.H. Schmidt's four-masted barque Henriette.
1912: Sailed from Astoria to Falmouth in 111 days.
1913/14: Sailed from Astoria to Queenstown in 125 days.
1914: Captain C. Ruppert late first mate of the same owner's steel ship Flottbek (1891).
1914: Sailed from Hamburg to Santa Rosalia in 122 days.
1914 August: Interned at Santa Rosalia for the duration of the war.
1920: Delivered as war damage compensation to ???.
1920 December 6: Sold to Robert Dollar & Co., San Francisco, and was renamed David Dollar.
1929: Sunk as a "breakwater" at Alameda, CA, for the building of the new airport.

Updated 1997-04-16 by Lars Bruzelius.

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