Thistle

A four-masted steel barque built in 1891 by C. Connell & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 86,56×12,92×7,48 meters [284'0"×42'5"×24'7"] and tonnage: 2284 GRT and 2192 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails.

Sistership to Hardie's four-masted barques Vimeira (1891) and Pyrénées (1891).

1891 June: Launched at the shipyard of C. Connell & Co., Glasgow, for the Thistle Ship Co. (J.D. Clink), Greenock. Captain E. England.
1904: Placed under the management of Lang & Fulton, Greenock.
1905 November 8: Wrecked on the Palmerston Reef, Cook Islands, on voyage from Portland, OR, to Port Pirrie. Under command of Captain J. McNeill.

Updated 1997-04-19 by Lars Bruzelius.

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