Saxon

Three-mast steel barque built in 1893 by Russel & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 74,88×11,46×6,89 meters. Rigged with double top and topgallant sails.

1876: Launched at the shipyard of Russel & Co., Port Glasgow, for D. McGillivray, Greenock.
1908: Sold to J.A. Russel & Co., Glasgow.
1910 December: Sold to C.H. Sørensen, Arendal, Norway, for £ 5350.
1915 June: Sold to A/S Amasis (H. Borge), Arendal, for NOK 140.000 and was renamed Amasis.
1915 July 5: Taken over by the new owners.
1908: Sold to Sandefjords Seil A/S (Haakon Rachlew), Arendal, for NOK 800.000.
1923: Sold to Vinnen Gebrüder GmbH, Hamburg, and was renamed Elfrieda. Assigned the German signal RDPV. Captain Hermann Schipmann, Papenburg.
1923: Sailed with timber from Gefle to Melbourne in 133 days.
1925: Sailed with timber from Fredrikshald to Melbourne in 114 days.
1926: Sailed with grain from Port Germein to Queenstown in 144 days.
1927: Sailed with coal from Newcastle, NSW, to Callao in 55 days.
1927: Sailed with nitrate from Iquique to Falmouth for orders in 130 days.
1928: Sold to Deutscher Verein, Bremen, and was remaned Schulschiff Pommern. Captain J. Reimer previously first mate onboard.
1928 November 26: Dismasted off the Channel Islands and was abandoned. While the crew was rescued by the German tug Herold the ship drifted to Granville. Eventually brought into St Malo by the pilot cutter.
Sold to be broken up as the damages were to extensive.
1929 February 19: Was brought to Cherbourg where she was broken up.

Updated 1996-10-12 by Lars Bruzelius

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