Robert Duncan

A four-masted steel barque built in 1891 by R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 85,20×12,82×7,43 meters [279'7"×42'1"×24'5"] and tonnage 2166 GRTand 2005 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double top and single topgallant sails.

1891 January
Launched at the shipyard of R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow, for Leitch & Muir, Greenock. Captain R. Falconer.
1910
Sold to A.P. Rolph, Greenock, and was renamed William T. Lewis. Captain E.E. Manning.
1918
Sold to J. Rolph, San Francisco.
1927
Sold to J. Griffith, Seattle.
1935
Sold to Island Tug & Barge Co., Victoria, BC, and re-built as towbarge and was renamed Fibreboard.
1940
Still in existance.

Updated 1997-01-29 by Lars Bruzelius.


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