Monkbarns

A steel fullrigged ship built in 1895 by A. McMillan & Sons, Dumbarton. Dimensions: 267'×40'1"×23'6" and tonnage: 1911 GRT. Rigged with double topsails and a main skysail. Equipped with the traditional Corsar winged horse figurehead.

1895 June: Launched at the shipyard of A. McMillan & Sons, Dumbarton, for Corsar's "Flying Horse Line". Assigned the official British Reg. No. _____ and signal ____.
1904: Sailed from San Francisco to Falmouth f.o. in 110 days.
1906: Frozen in off Cape Horn for 63 days on voyage to San Francisco. Captain Robinson died during the voyage.
1910 February 14 -: Sailed from Hamburg to Port Phillip in 116 days. The cargo consisted in part of 750 cases of dynamite and 300 kegs of gunpowder.
c1911: Sold to Stewart for £4850.
1912: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Taltal in 58 days.
1912: Sailed from Taltal to London in 95 days.
1913: Sailed from London to Buenos Ayres in 60 days.
1925: Sailed from Iquique to Sydney in 89 days where she arrived in May.
1925: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Callao in 60 days.
1926 January 20: Sailed from Valparaiso for Great Britain.
1926 March 28: Put into Rio de Janeiro to land Captain William Davies who had been taken seriously ill.
1926 April 1 - July 10: Sailed from Rio de Janeiro to Gravesend in 99 days.
1926: Sold to Norwegian owners for £2500.
19__: Coal hulk at Corcubion.

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Square-rigged ships, general references.

Updated 1998-09-17 by Lars Bruzelius

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