Inverness-Shire

A four-masted steel barque built in 18942 by R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 86,17×13,00×7,48 meters [282'9"×42'8"×24'7"] and tonnage: 2307 GRT and 2147 NRT.

Jubilee-rigged, i.e. rigged with nothing above double top and topgallant sails.

1894 May: Launched at the shipyard of R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow, for T. Law & Co., Glasgow. Captain J-P- Peattie.
1915 June 21: Was towed into Hobart, Tasmania, after having been totally dis-masted in the Australia bay.
1915: Sold to A/S Bark Inverness-Shire (H. Jeremiassen), Porsgrund.
1916 August: Sold to A/S Christiansand (Sven O. Stray), Kristiansand, and was renamed Svartskog. Captain A. Nielsen.
1920 October: Disappeared at sea on voyage from Newport, VA, to Buenos Ayres with a cargo of coal. Posted missing my Lloyd's on July 15, 1921.

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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