Amyone

An iron full-rigged ship built in 1873 by J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 64,68×10,45×7,16 meters [231'1"×37'1"×23'4"] and tonnage 1332 GRT and 1279 NRT.

1873: Launched at the shipyard of J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, for W.C. Battersby & Co., Liverpool.
1889 February 22: Sold to Alb. Evers & Classen, Hamburg, and was renamed Ocean. Assigned the German signal RHML. The new German measurements were 68,48×10,84×7,22 meters and 1332 GRT.
1890: Captain E.H.C. Staben.
1892: Probably re-rigged as a barque in this year.
1898: Sold to August Troberg, Mariehamn. [Kresse has Donner in 1899]
1911 November 4: Wrecked on the west coast of Isle of Islay on voyage from Dublin to Moss.

References:

Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-04-05 by Lars Bruzelius

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