Lord Shaftesbury

A four-masted steel ship built in 1888 by Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co., Whitehaven. Dimensions: 89,37×13,00×7,31 meters [293'3"×42'8"×24'0"] and tonnage: 2341 GRT and 2273 NRT.

A sistership to the fourmasted ship Galgate.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. Later re-rigged as a barque.

1888 December: Launched at the shipyard of Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co., Whitehaven, for J. Herron & Co., Liverpool. Captain J. Cunningham.
1900: Sold to A.P. Rolph, Liverpool, and was renamed Golden Gate. Captain H.M. Burgess.
1904: Sailed from New Caledonia to Delaware Capes in 88 days [?, Cf. Lord Ripon].
1914: Sold to J. Rolph, San Francisco.
1919: Sold to Rolph Navigation & Coal Co., San Francisco.
1934: Broken up at Alameda, CA, after the owner's death.

Updated 1997-01-05 by Lars Bruzelius.

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