Beethoven

A four-masted steel barquentine built in 1904 by Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock, as yard no. 247. Dimensions: 271'8"×40'5"×24'0" and tonnage: 2008 GRT, 1858 NRT.

Sistership to the same owner's four-masted steel barquentine Mozart (1903).

1904 January 7: Launched at the shipyard of Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock, for A. C. de Freitas, Hamburg. Employed in the South American - European nitrate trade.
1904: Sailed from Port Talbot to Iquique in 95 days.
1904: Sailed from Lizard to Iquique in 123 days.
1904/1905: Sailed from Caleta Buena to Genoa in 146 days.
1905: Sailed from Tocopilla to Lizard in 117 days.
1905-1907: Captain H. Jolles.
1907: Sailed from Port Talbot to Pisagua in 107 days.
1908: Captain O. Schmidt.
1909: Captain B. Rubarth.
1909: Sailed from Pisagua to Falmouth in 143 days.
1910: Captain R. Petersen.
1911: Captain J. Mahn.
1911 March 25: Sold to Spielman & Co. KG, Hamburg.
1911 July: Sold to A/S Beethoven (Daniel Strøm), Kristiania, Norway.
1913 June: Sold to Soc. Anon. Nav. Scuola, Trieste, Italy, for £ 10.250. Captain Victor Orschultk.
1914 March 30: Left Newcastle, NSW, with a cargo of 3103 tons of coal for Valparaiso and disappeared on the way. [Meyer has March 29]

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Square-rigged ships, general references.

Updated 1997-04-23 by Lars Bruzelius

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