Hans

A four-masted steel barque built by W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 102,22×14,24×8,04 meters [335'5×46'9×26'5] and tonnage 3102 GRT and 2869 NRT.

1904: Launched at the shipyard of W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow.
1904 March 22: Bought by G.J.H. Siemers & Co., Hamburg. Command was given to by Captain Jürgen Friedrich Külsen (1867-1927), previously master of Reederei B. Wencke Söhne's four-masted barque Hera ex Richard Wagner (1886).
1904 April 24: Left Port Talbot with a cargo of 4920 tons of coal for Iquique.
1904 May 15: The cargo of coal exploded and caught fire at 28°48' N and 18°31' W in sight of the Palma Island. Returned to Falmouth after the fire had been put out and continued to Greenock for repairs.
1904 September 2: The trip to Iquique was resumed now with only 2030 tons of coal.
1905: Sailed from Port Talbot to Pisagua in 73 days.
1905/06: Sailed from Caleta Buena to Lizard in 79 days.
1906: Sailed from Junin to Lizard in 98 days.
1907: Sailed from Port Talbot to Iquique in 89 days.
1907: Sailed from Iquique to Newcastle, NSW, in 58 days.
1913: Sailed from Taltal to Antwerpen in 86 days.
1914: Sailed from Hamburg to Santa Rosalia, Mexico, in 143 days.
1914: Interned for the duration of the war at Santa Rosalia.
1917: Confiscated by the United States.
1920: Sold to Robert Dollar & Co., San Francisco, CA, and renamed Mary Dollar.
1934: Sold to A. Charles Watt, Long Beach, CA, after having been laid up at Alameda for some time. To be used as a restaurant ship. Was rigged off and renamed Tango. Used as a gambling ship off Long Beach, CA.
1942: Sold to Transatlantik Navigation Co., New York, and re-rigged as a six-masted barquentine.
1943 February: Sold to Portuguese owners in Lourenço Marques and was re-named Cidade do Porto and re-rigged to a six-masted schooner.
1945 August: Lost most of her sails in a storm off East London and she had to be towed to Durban by the tug Sir William Hoy for repairs.
1948: Broken up at Lisbon.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
A Six-Masted Schooner's Bad Luck.
Sea Breezes Vol. 2 (1946), p 126.

Updated 1997-04-13 by Lars Bruzelius.

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