Drumblair

A four-masted iron ship built in 1883 by Russell & Co., Greenock. Dimensions: 81,48×12,24×7,33 meters [267'4"×40'2"×24'1"] and tonnage: 1907 GRT and 1848 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double topsails and single topgallant sails. Sistership to the same owner's Drumeltan (1883).

1883 September: Launched at the shipyard of Russel & Co., Greenock, for the "Drum"-line of Gillison & Chadwick, Liverpool.
1899: Re-rigged as a four-masted barque.
1905: Sold to William Bowen, Llanelly, and was renamed Cissie.
1911 August: Sold to A/S Cissie (Alexander Bech & Co.), Tvedestrand, Norway.
1913 October: Sold to A/S Cissie (E. Monsen & Co.), Tvedestrand.
1915 October 22: On voyage from Hull to Port Arthur, TX, she collided with the steam ship North Western Hills in the English Channel at St Catherines Point and was wrecked.

Updated 1997-04-26 by Lars Bruzelius.

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