Lauriston

A four-masted steel ship built in 1892 by Workman, Clark & Co., Belfast. Dimensions: 86,71×12,80×7,41 meters [284'6"×42'0"×24'4"] and tonnage: 2301 GRT and 2133 NRT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. There was no royal sail on the jigger mast.

1892 December: Launched at the shipyard of Workman, Clark & Co., Belfast, for Galbraith & Moorhead, London. Captain W. Latta.
1900: Sold to Galbraight, Hill & Co., London.
1905: Sold to G. Duncan & Co., London. Reduced to barque-rig.
1910: Sold to Cook & Dundas, London, for £ 4000.
1913: Sold to Taltal Shipping Co. (Cherey, Eggar & Forrester), London.
1917: Sold to Hudson Bay Co., London.
1919: Sold to Government Baltic Shipping Co., Leningrad, and was renamed Tovaritsch. Used as a sail-training ship under command of Captain E. Freimann.
1927: Sold to Sovtorgflot, Archangelsk.
1928: Collided with the Italian steamer Alcantara in the English Channel.
1943 August: Sunk by German airplanes to blockade the entrance to the harbour of Mariupol.

Updated 1997-03-07 by Lars Bruzelius.

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