Quilpué

A steel barque built in 1890 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, as yard no. 249. Dimensions: ___'_"×__'_"×__'_" and tonnage: .... GRT, .... NRT and .... tons under deck.

1890: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for F.H. Vaughan, Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. .... and signal ..... Employed in world wide trade.
1910: Sold to A/S Laboremus (T. Dannevig & Co.), Sandefjord, and was renamed Roald Amundsen.
1912: Renamed Mimosa.
1913: Sold to Haldor Virik, Sandefjord.
1915: Sold to Cia de Pesca N. do Brasil (T. Rynning, Sandefjord), Pernambuco.
1916: Sold to Fritz S. Klem, Sandefjord.
1916 May: Sold to A/S Dansk Svovlsyre og Superfosfatfabrik, Copenhagen.
1916 May 30: Sold to Rederi AB Mimosa (Harald Schüssler), Stockholm, for SEK 525.000. Assigned the official Swedish Reg. No. 5810 and signal JVQH. The new measurements were 68,50×11,01×6,61 meters and 1408 GRT, 1286 NRT and 2200 DWT. Captain H.S. Olsson.
1924 December 5: Sold to Rud. Neugebauer & Co., Hamburg, for SEK 28.500 to be broken up..

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Svenska järn- och stålseglare.
Båtologen Årg. 29-31 (1991-93).

Updated 1997-04-11 by Lars Bruzelius

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