Dominion

A four-masted steel barque built in 1891 by W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland.
Her dimensions were: 89,61×13,10×7,31 meters [294'0"×43'0"×24'0"] and tonnage: 2538 GRT and 2398 NRT. Rigged with nothing above double top- and top-gallant sails, i.e. "baldhead" rig.
Sistership to the same owner's four-masted barques Republic and Nation.

1891 December
Launched at the shipyard of W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, for William Thomas & Co., Liverpool. The first master was Captain William Meredith, Nefyn, Wales.
1899 January 19
Left Honolulu for Royal Roads, Vancouver, British Columbia, in ballast and has never been heard of again.

Updated 1997-01-25 by Lars Bruzelius.


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