Samaritan

A four-masted steel barque built in 1891 by R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 86,0×12,82×7,43 meters [282'2×42'1×24'5] and tonnage: 2143 GRT & 1997 NRT.

1891 June: Launched at the shipyard of R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow, for W. Thomson & Co., Liverpool.
1901: Sold to Macivar, Marshall & Co., Liverpool.
1910 October: Sold to Skib-A/S Strømsbo (Grefstad & Herlofsen), Arendal, Norway.
1913 December: Sold to Th. Brøvig and partners, Farsund, Norway, and renamed to Far.
1915: Sold to S. Marcussen, Lyngør.
1915 June 12: Left Pernambuco for Glasgow.
1915 September: Sold to Rederi AB Magda (Vidar R. Olburs & Co.), Gothenburg, for SEK 250.000 and was renamed Dagmar. The master of the ship was Captain Karl Nathanael Kihlberg, Vesterlanda.
1915 November 5: Sailed from Glasgow in ballast for Gothenburg with a crew of 24.
1915 November 11: Spoke to the signal station at Tail-of-the-Bank and has never been heard after this.

Updated 1996-04-26 by Lars Bruzelius.

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