Orient

A steel fullrigged ship built in 1889 by Charles Connell & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 75,82x11,40x6,95 meters [258'8"×38'7"×22'7"] and 1664 GRT and 1592 NRT and 2700 DWT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails.

1889 February 11: Launched at the shipyard of Charles Connell & Co., Glasgow, for Alb. Evers & Clasen, Hamburg. Assigned the German signal RHMN. Captain H. Kühl.
1894: Captain F.W. Keppler.
1899: Captain C.Gries.
1899: Sold to G.A. Linblom, Åbo, Finland. Captain A.D. Hårdh was put in command of the vessel.
1907: Wrecked at the entrance to the harbour of East London on voyage from Melbourne with a cargo of wheat. The cable parted during towage into the harbour and the current swept the Orient aground.

References:

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

Updated 1997-04-21 by Lars Bruzelius

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