Buckingham

A four-masted steel ship built in 1888 by T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool. Dimensions 93,74×13,73×7,36 meters [307'7"×45'1"×24'2"] and tonnage 2668 GRT and 2613 NRT. Rigged with nothing above double top- and topgallant sails.

1888 September: Launched at the shipyard of T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool, for Macvicar, Marshall & Co., Liverpool. The first master was Captain P. Lyall.
1901: Sold to D.H. Wätjen & Co., Bremen, and was renamed Bertha. Captain C. Hüneke resumed command of the ship. Assigned the German official signal GHJN. The German measurements were: 91,06×13,76×7,42 meters and 2695 GRT.
1913 October 18: Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg, and was renamed Ottawa. The new master was Captain O. Heinatz. Referred to as a fourmasted barque.
1914: Interned in San Francisco at the outbreak of the First World War.
1917: Condemned by the US Government and renamed Muscoota.
1901: Transferred to the United States Shipping Board, Washington, DC, and renamed Flying Cloud.
1921: Renamed Muscoota.
1924: Hulked in Sydney.
1942: Broken up at Milne Bay.

Updated 1997-01-26 by Lars Bruzelius.

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