Wayfarer

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1886 by W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool. Dimensions 278'0"×40'1"×24'2" and 2095 GRT, 2040 NRT and 1949 tons under deck.

1886 September: Launched at the shipyard of W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool, for Wayfarer Ship Co. (W.H. Potter & Sons), Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 93698 and signal KHTW.
1910: Sold to owners in Lillesand, Norway, for £ 2300 and was renamed Tasmania. The Finnish measurements were 2089 GRT and 1935 NRT.
1912 October: Sold to Robert Mattsson, Mariehamn, for £ 6800.
1912: Captain K.A. Ekblom succeeded Captain S. Berntsen as commander of the vessel.
1914: Captain A. Joelsson.
1917 December: Torpedoed by a German submarine.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-04-24 by Lars Bruzelius

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