Dovenby Hall

An iron full-rigged ship built in 1885 by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co., Jarrow-on-Tyne. Dimensions: 280'0"×40'0"×24'2" and tonnage: 2069 GRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails, but a single mizzen topgallant sail.

1885 June 13: Launched at the shipyard of Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co., Jarrow-on-Tyne, for Globe Shipping Co. (Messrs Chas. G. Dunn & Co., Liverpool.
1894 July 10: Arrived to Liverpool from Tacoma with a grain-cargo.
1900: Captain James Platt Barker
1902: Sold to J.F. Arens, Bremen, and was renamed Sylfide.
190_: Sold to E.C. Schramm & Co., Bremen, and was renamed Henriette.
1909 December 10: Sold to Aug. Bolten, Wm. Miller's Nachf., Hamburg.
1910-1913: Captain B. Sauermilch.
1913: Sold to Vinnen Gebrüder GmbH, Hamburg.
1914: Captain C. Lange.
1917: Requisitioned by the Brazilian Government and renamed Mearim.
1921: Surrendered as war damage compensation [Kresse].
1921: Sold to Lloyd Brasileiro, and was renamed Almirante Saldanha and used as a cargo carrying sail training ship.
1928 May: Hulked.

Is credited with a passage from Shanghai to Tacoma in 29 days.

Updated 1997-04-30 by Lars Bruzelius