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A four-masted steel barque built in 1902 by A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 99,84×14,14×8,04 meters [327'7"×46'5"×26'2"] and tonnage 3090 GRT and 2971 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double top and top-gallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barque Eclipse (1902).

1902 April: Launched at the shipyard of A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow, for Anglo-American Oil Co., London.
1912: Sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 15.000 and was renamed Parma.
1914: Interned at Iquique at the ourbreak of the First World War.
1920: Assigned as war damage reparations to Great Britain.
1921 November 8: Sold back to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 10.000.
1924-1926: In command of Captain Töpper.
1926-1927: In command of Captain Holst.
1926: Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 86 days.
1927: Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 88 days.
1928-1929: In command of Captain Rohwer.
1928: Sailed from Land's End to Talcahuano in 70 days.
1929-1930: In command of Captain Brockhöft.
1931: Sold to Ruben De Cloux and Alan Villiers, Mariehamn, for RM 34.000.
1933: Sailed from Port Victoria to Falmouth in 83 days.
1936: Sold after a minor accident in the harbour of Glasgow and was rigged off and used as hulk at Haifa.
1938: Broken up.

Updated 1997-02-15 by Lars Bruzelius.

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