Silberhorn

A four-masted iron barque built in 1884 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 81,50×12,24×7,31 meters [267'5"×40'2"×24'0"] and tonnage: 1920 GRT and 1853 NRT.

1884 March: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for J.R. De Wolf & Sons, Liverpool.
1907 June 12: Left Newcastle, NSW, for Iquique with a cargo of coal. A burning wreck, which was later believed to have been the Silberhorn, was observed at the Juan Fernandez Islands by the German barque Anny.

Updated 1996-02-19 by Lars Bruzelius.

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