Talus

A steel ship built in 1891 by Barclay Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 271'×44'×21' and tonnage GRT 2090 and 1954 NRT. Equipped with a forcastle of 40 ft and a poop of 36 ft. The midshiphouse or bridgedeck was 36 ft long.

1891 March: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay Curle & Co., Glasgow, for the "Golden Fleece Line" (A. & J. Carmichael), Greenock. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 98303.
1891-1896: In command of Captain E.C. Bennet, late of the fullrigged ship Thessalus.
1891: Sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 81 days.
1891: Sailed from Melbourne to Newcastle, NSW in 6 days.
1891: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW to San Francisco in 48 days.
c1892: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 113 days.
1893: Sailed from Cardiff to Montevideo in 41 days.
1896: Captain Stenhouse replaced Captain Bennet who had been appointed master of the same owner's four-masted barque Glaucus.
1900: Sold to William Lewis & Co. (& Lewis and Herron), London.
1914 June 14: Left the Clyde in ballast for New York but never arrived.

Updated 2001-03-09 by Lars Bruzelius

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