Holkar

A four-masted steel ship built in 1888 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, as hull no. 205. Her dimensions were 100,34×13,76×8,09 meters [329'3"×45'2"×26'7"] and tonnage 3072 GRT and 2960NRT. Rigged with double top- and topgallant sails and royal sails.

1888 February 11: Launched at the shipyard of Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
1888 April 30: Delivered to T.J. Brocklebank, London.
c1900: Reduced to a barque.
1901: Sold to D. & H. Wätjen, Bremen, and was renamed Adelaide.
1913 August 14: Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg, and was renamed Odessa.
1914 August 20: Taken by the British auxilliary cruiser HMS Caronia in the North Atlantic and was put under the British flag under the name Adelaide.
1915 April: Sold to A/S Souverain (A. Melling Jr.), Stavanger, Norway, and was renamed Souverain.
1916 September: Sold to Tvedestrands Rederi A/S (Jos. A. Henschen), Tvedestrand.
1917: Sold to Tvedestrands Rederi A/S (Christiansands Shipping Co. Ltd.), Kristiansand.
1920 September: Sold to Skibs A/S Otra (Lars Jørgensen), Kristiansand.
1923: Sold to Emil & Hjalmar Knudsen, Lillesand and was renamed Hippalos.
1925: Broken up in The Netherlands.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Tandberg, Arne: (Personal communication).
Bergen, 1997.

Updated 1997-09-06 by Lars Bruzelius.

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