Borrowdale

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1868 by W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool. Dimensions: 65,85×10,28×6,7 meters [226'4×36'4×22'0] and tonnage: 1277 GRT and 1197 NRT.

1868: Launched at the shipyard of W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool, for J.D. Newton & Co., Liverpool.
1889: Sold to Nicholson & McGill, Liverpool.
1899: Sold to by M.A. Troberg, Mariehamn, for FIM 105.000. (Managing owner for a total of 38 part owners). Her first Finnish master was Captain Ossian Pettersson.
c1903: Re-rigged as a barque.
1914 August 26: Left Bunbury, Australia, with a cargo of yarra wood and under command of Captain Karl Oskar Troberg.
1914 December 12: Arrived to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1915 May 23: Arrived to Le Havre, France.
1916 March 15: Left Pensacola for Cardiff where she arrived April 28.
1916 March: August Troberg sold his 27/100 of the ship to Gustaf Eriksson, Mariehamn, for FIM 300.000. By buying additional shares from other owners Gustaf Erikson increased his ownership to 41/100 before the ship arrived to Cardiff. The new master was Captain A. Björklund.
1917 February 22: Arrived to Newport, England, with a cargo of pitchpine from Sabine, Texas.
1917 May 3: Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Bristol Channel with a cargo coke en route for Port Nolloth. The crew were able to get off in the boats and landed safe near Milford Haven.

Updated 1995-08-26 by Lars Bruzelius

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