Mozart

A steel four-masted barquentine built in 1903 by Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock. Dimensions 80,15×12,24×7,38 meters and 2003 GRT and ____ NRT.

Sistership to the same owner's four-masted steel barquentine Beethoven (1904).

1903 February 29: Launched at the shipyard of Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock, for A.C. de Freitas & Co., Hamburg. Assigned the German signal RNDJ.
1905-1907: In command of Captain O. Schmidt.
1905: Sailed from Port Talbot to Junin in 89 days.
1905/06: Sailed from Iquique to the English Channel in 99 days.
1908-1911: In command of Captain P. Justi.
1907: Sailed from Pisagua to Sydney in 63 days.
1907: Sailed from Sydney to Iquique in 63 days.
1908: Sailed from Iquique to Newcastle, NSW, in 68 days.
1908: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Valparaiso in 52 days.
1908: Sailed from Taltal to Lizard in 105 days.
1911 February 17: Sold to Schlüter & Maack, Hamburg, for DEM 150.000.
1912-1914: In command of Captain F. Weiermann.
1920: Delivered as war damage compensation.
1921/21: Sailed from Taltal to Ostende with a cargo of nitrate.
192_: Sold to Hugo Lundqvist, Mariehamn.
1935: Broken up in England.

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Square-rigged ships, general references.

Updated 1997-05-12 by Lars Bruzelius

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