Samoena

A steel ship built in 1892 by Charles Connell & Co., Glasgow.
Dimensions: 239'_"×36'_"×21'_" and tonnage: 2900 GRT and 1436 NRT. [Hume]
Dimensions 272'_"×40'_"×23'6" and 1962 GRT and 1869 NRT. [Lille]

Rigged in Jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing above double top and topgallant sails.

1892: Launched at the shipyard of Charles Connell & Co., Glasgow, for The Samoena Ship Co. (J.D. Clink), Greenock. Assigned the official British Reg. No. ____ and signal ____.
1907: Management of the ship transferred to Lang & Fulton, Greenock.
1910: Sold to J.A. Zachariasen, Nystad, Finland. Captain J.E. Rönnholm, Vasa.
1919 September 25: Wrecked at Hoek van Holland on voyage from New York to Rotterdam. The wreck was sold to be broken up and was blown up where she was.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Hume, John R. & Moss, Michael S.: A Bed of Nails. The History of P. MacCallum & Sons, Ltd of Greenock 1781-1981, a Study in Survival.
Lang & Fulton, Greenock, (c1982). 8vo, xii, 148 pp, ill.
Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-04-22 by Lars Bruzelius

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