Urania

A four-masted steel barque built in 1902 by A. McMillan & Son, Dumbarton. Dimensions: 100,58×14,32×8,22 meters [330'0"×47'0"×27'0"] and tonnage: 3265 GRT and 3060 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

Sistership to the four-masted barque Alsterberg (1902).

1902 March 11
Launched at the shipyard of A. McMillan & Son, Dumbarton, for B. Wencke Söhne, Hamburg. Assigned the German signal RMKQ. The German measurements seem to have been 98,60×14,38×8,29 meters and 3265 GRT.
1902-1903
Captain F. Wolters was appointed master of the ship.
1903
Sailed from Lizard to San Diego in 118 days.
1903
Sailed from Los Angeles to Caleta Buena in 57 days.
1903/04
Sailed from Caleta Buena to Lizard in 116 days.
1904
In command of Captain E. Peitsmeier.
1904
Sailed from Lizard to Los Angeles in 148 days.
1904/05
Sailed from Los Angeles to Iquique in 49 days.
1905
Sailed from Pisagua to Lizard in 109 days.
1905-1906
In command of Captain J. Timme [Timmer?].
1905
Sailed from Lizard to Taltal in 98 days.
1905/06
Sailed from Tocopilla to the English Channel in 98 days.
1906 January 30
Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg.
1906-1911
In command of Captain J. Timmer.
1906
Sailed from Lizard to Santos in 50 days.
1906
Sailed from Santos to Taltal in 57 days.
1906/07
Sailed from Taltal to Lizard in 108 days.
1908
Sailed from Iquique to Lizard in 125 days.
1908
Sailed from Lizard to Santos in 60 days.
1908/09
Sailed from Santos to Newcastle, NSW, in 79 days.
1909
Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Valparaiso in 46 days.
1909
Sailed from Caleta Buena to Lizard in 107 days.
1912-1913
In command of Captain A. Permien.
1914
In command of Captain Peter Petersen (1863-1957) late of the four-masted barque Oceana.
1914
Sailed from Iquique to the English Channel in 127 days with a cargo od 5420 tons of nitrate.
1914 September 10
Seized by the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Diana in the English Channel and sold to the Anglo American Oil Co., for £ 16.500 and was renamed Speedonia. Captain Walsh late of the Port Jackson was given command of the vessel. [Meyer has September 14].
1917
Rebuild as a motor tanker and was renamed Scala Shell. Captain John Baxter was given command of the vessel.
1930
Broken up.

Updated 1997-05-10 by Lars Bruzelius.


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