Jordanhill

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 84,83×12,80×7,36 meters [278'4"×42'0"×24'2"] and tonnage: 2291 GRT and 2176 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails.

1892 March: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for J.R. Dickson & Co., Glasgow. Captain D. Marshall.
1896: Sold to Th. Law & Co., Glasgow. [Furrer has 1900]
1919: Under the management of the Shipping Controller of the British Government.
1920: Sold to Soc. Italiana di Navigazione "Stella d'Italia", Genoa, and renamed Augustella.
1922: Sold to Spanish Navy, Cartagena, Spain, and was renamed Minerva. Intended to be used as a training ship and was equipped with an aux. engine.
1923: Converted into a hulk at Cadiz. [Hughes has 1925]
1933: Used for target practice.
c1936: Borken up during the Spanish civil war.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Clark, G.V.: Four Years in the Jordanhill.
Sea Breezes Vol. 2 (1946), pp 336-341, ill.
Hughes, Lawrence R.: Brought Back Memories.
Sea Breezes Vol. 2 (1946), p 472.

Updated 1997-04-13 by Lars Bruzelius.

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