Wolfe

A wooden three-masted barque built of oak and pine in 1881 by Kitchin, St John, NB. Dimensions 54,35×10,7×6,22 meters and tonnage 942 NRT Finnish measurement; 972,73 BRT, 873,06 NRT and 862,16 tons under deck Swedish measurement.
Rigged with royal and single topgallant sails over double topsails. She also had a spencer sail on the main mast.

1881: Launched at the shipyard of Kitchin, St John, NB.
1884-1893: Owned by S. Crerar, Halifax, NS.
1900: Sold to J.E. Stenroos, Åland, for FIM 61.500.
1901: Sailed from Sharpness to Havanna with cokes, 11/9 per ton.
1901: Sailed from Mobile to Great Britain, 115/0 per ton.
1902: Sailed from Darien (US Eastcoast) to Southampton in 39 days under Captain W. Åkerlund.
1903: Sailed from Mariehamn - Örnsköldsvik - Cape Town - Mobile - Port Natal - Pensacola - Buenos Aires - Montevideo [?] - Gloucester under command of Captain J. Karlsson. The cargo during the last leg was wheat.
1906: Sailed from Chatham, NB to Buenos Aires with timber; La Plata - Cork with grain.
1907: Sailed from Cardiff to Port Nolloth with coal; Amhurts, NS - Dublin with timber.
1909: Sailed from Åland to West Hartlepool with pitprops, 21/6 per std.
1911: Sailed from Uleborg to London with splitwood, 29/6 per std.
1911: Sailed from Jamacia to Riga with logwood.
1913 February 4: Sold to Sigrid Magdalena Lovisa Björkegren, Simrishamn, Sweden, for FIM 31.000. Swedish Reg. No. 5445, Code Letters JTGF. Master Pehr Larsson Wickman, Östra Hoby.
1914 [?]: Laid up in Malmö at the beginning of the war.
1915 June: Sailed to England with a cargo of split wood.
1915 October 26: Sailed from Burntisland for Malmö, Sweden with 1228 tons of coal. Was lost in the North Sea.
1915 October 31: One of the ship's boats with the corpses of three men was found 7-8 miles NNO from Lybster by the English steamer Ocean Queen.

Updated 1996-12-22 by Lars Bruzelius

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