Knight of the Thistle

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1878 by T. Royden & Son, Liverpool. Dimensions: 232'6"×37'9"×22'7" and tonnage: 1489 GRT, 1428 NRT and 1357 tons under deck.

1878 April: Launched at the shipyard of T. Royden & Son, Liverpool, for Greenshields, Cowie & Co., Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 78782 and signal SLWT. Employed in the Indian jute trade.
1887: Captain Vanstone was given command of the ship.
1896: Sold to Gabriel Granlund, Raumo, Finland, and was renamed Hoppet. The Finnish measurements were 1489 GRT and 1365 NRT. Captain F.W. Tork was given command of the vessel.
1907: Sold to owners at Arendal, Norway, and was renamed Novo.
1913: Sold to owners at Lillesand.
c1917: Sold to owners in Argentina and was renamed Don Diego.
191_: Later registered in Bolivia.
1927: Sailed to Nantes after having been laid up for several years.
1928: Broken up.

References:

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

Updated 1997-04-27 by Lars Bruzelius

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