Dumfriesshire

A four-masted steel barque built in 1890 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 95,55×12,82×7,41 meters [313'6"×42'1"×24'4"] and tonnage: 2565 GRT, 2512 NRT and 2453 tons under deck. Equipped with a donkey steam engine.

Rigged with skysails, royal sails, over double top- and single topgallant sails.

1889 December: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, and delivered to the Shire Line of T. Law & Co., Glasgow, in January 1890. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 97594. Captain W.C. McGibbon was given command of the new vessel.
1890 March 15 - April 21: Sailed from Antwerp to San Francisco in 158 days.
1890 October 28 - April 7: Sailed from San Francisco to Hull in 159 days.
1893: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to San Francisco in 84 days.
1893: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown f.o. in 112 days.
1894: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Antofagasta in 42 days.
1897: Held up at Newcastle, NSW, together with more than a 100 other sailing ships during the coal mine strike.
1897: Sailed from Iquique for Hamburg but sprung a leak and had to put into Rio de Janeiro.
1897 July 2 - August 20: Repaired in Rio de Janeiro.
1897: Arrived in Hamburg 196 days out from Iquique.
1898: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Valparaiso in 39 days.
1899: Sailed from Dunkirk to New York in 45 days.
1900/1901: Sailed from Philadelphia, PA, to Hiogo in 163 days.
1901: Sailed from Portland, OR, to Falmouth f.o. in 114 days.
1898: Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Valparaiso in 39 days.
1909/1910: Sailed from Mejillones to Hamburg in 114 days.
1910: Sailed from Hamburg to Honolulu in 140 days.
1910: Sailed from Tacoma to Falmouth f.o. in 127 days.
1915 June 28: Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on voyage from San Francisco with a cargo of grain for Europe some 25 miles SW of the Smalls in the St George's Channel.

Updated 1998-02-01 by Lars Bruzelius.

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