Serapis

An iron full-rigged ship built in 1876 by J.E. Scott, Greenock. Dimensions: 224'0"×35'5"×20'1" and tonnage: 1027 GRT, 995 NRT and 933 tons under deck.

1876 November: Launched at the shipyard of J.E. Scott, Greenock, for W. Lund [?], London. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 73730 and signal ____. Employed in the South American [?] trade.
1879: Master: Captain I. Pankhurst. [LR 1879-80]
1889 July 4: Sold to Vilh. Lund, London, for £ 7070, but was registered at Fanø, Denmark, with P.N. Winther, Nordby, as managing owner. The Danish tonnage measured 1037 GRT.
1892 June 7: Sold to an "aktieselskab" at Norby with P.N. Winther as managing owner for DKK 127.260.
1892 July 27: Passed Helsingør with a cargo of timber for Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, where she arrived on October 15, 80 days out from Helsingør.
1893: Reduced to barque rig in Flensburg.
1904: Partly dis-masted in the Indian Ocean on voyage from Geelong to Algoa Bay with a cargo of wheat. Had to seek refuge at Port Louis, Mauritius, under jury rig. The repairs took 20 days to complete.
1906 August: Sold to Italy.
1912: Broken up at Genoa.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Holm-Petersen, F.: Maritime minder fra Fanø.
Høst & Søn, København, 1980. Sq8vo, 48 pp, ill.
Holm-Petersen, F.: Fanø Sejlskibe. Beretningar og breve fra de hvide sejls dage.
Henning Clausens Boghandel, Aarhus, 1959. 8vo, 334 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-05-11 by Lars Bruzelius

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