Eskasoni

A steel full-rigged ship built in 1886 by Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton. Dimensions: 260'0"×39'0"×23'5" and tonnage 1760 GRT and 1715 NRT and 1620 tons under deck.

1886 January: Launched at the shipyard of Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton, for Eskasoni Ship Co. (F.C. Mahon), Windsor, NS. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 88393.
1908/9: Sold to A/S Protector (Leif Gundersen), Porsgrunn, Norway, together with Gantock Rock ex MacLeod and was renamed Protector.
1912: Owners: Gundersen & Gjertsen, Porsgrunn.
1916: Owners: Jacobsen & Co., Langesund [Lillesand?].
19__: Sold to H. Dietricksen.
1924: Disappears from Det Norske Veritas.

Broken up in Germany.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Sea Breezes, Vol. IX (1936-37), p 65.
Ramgren, Björn: I norska segelfartyg. Båtologen Årg. 30 (1992), p 274.

Updated 1997-05-03 by Lars Bruzelius

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