Kelburn

A four-masted steel ship built in 1889 by Barclay, Curly & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 93,87×13,30×7,69 meters [308'0"×43'8"×25'3"] and tonnage: 2578 GRT and 2498 NRT. Rigged in Jubilee fashion, i.e. nothing above double top and topgallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's fourmast ship Janet Cowan.

1889 October: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curly & Co., Glasgow, for R. Shankland & Co., Greenock. Captain M. Benson.
1910: Stranded at Morecombe Bay, Lancashire.
1911: Broken up by Garston, Troon.

Updated 1996-12-27 by Lars Bruzelius.

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