Loudon Hill

A four-masted barque built in 1887 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for J.R. Dickson & Co., Glasgow. Her dimensions were 86,5×12,3×7,5(d) meters [283'4×40'4×24'5] and tonnage 2139 GRT, 1986 NRT and 3300 DWT.

Rigged with royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails.

1887 May 24: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for J.R. Dickson & Co., Glasgow. Originally Dickson held 21 shares and William Todd Lithgow 43 shares in the ship. The latter was one of the partners in Russell & Co.
1899 December: Sold to E.F. & W. Roberts, Liverpool, for £ 14.000. [Lyman has 1902]
1910: Sold to A/S Erbrin (H. Jacobsen), Fredrikstad, Norway, £ 3100 and was renamed Erbrin. The new master was Captain Arnt Nielsen.
1914: Sailed from Callao to the Columbia River in 40 days.
1915 September 13: Sold to Rederi AB Magda (Vidar Olburs), Gothenburg, for SEK 250.000 and renamed Magda. New master was Captain Thor August Börjesson, Vallda.
1916 November 16: The majority of the shares were bought by a consortium from Stockholm and the port of registry was changed to this city.
1917 August: Captain N.P. Lund, Nyhamnsläge, was appointed as new master of the ship.
1918 September 6: Sold to Förnyade Ångfartygs AB Viking (Gunnar Carlsson), Gothenburg, for £ 15.000 and renamed Gullmarn.
1921 June: The Förnyade Ångfartygs AB Viking was liquidated and the Gullmarn was transferred to the owning company, Rederi AB Transatlantic, Gothenburg.
1922 August: Captain Johan Valfrid Andersson, Halmstad.
1923 September 5: Was sold to Petersen & Albeck, Copenhagen, for SEK 59.000 to be broken up, but was instead sold to Carl Nordstrand, Copenhagen, who sent her to England for a cargo coal from Cardiff to Madeira under the command of Captain P.T. Steffensen.
1924 January: Sold to Socieade Insulana de Transportes Marittima Ltda, Funchal, for £ 3500. Was de-rigged except for the lower masts and used as a coal hulk on the Funchal roadstead.
1941 February 12-13: Drifted ashore during a storm and was wrecked.

Select Bibliography

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Båtologen Vol. 30 (1992).
Alvåker, Torsten: Fyrmastbarken Gullmarns sista världsomsegling.
Longitude 21, Stockholm, 1985. pp 88-94, ill.
Lyman, John: The Part-owners of a British Sailing Vessel, 1887-1910.
Mariner's Mirror vol. 58, London, 1972. pp 463-465, 1 pl.

Updated 1997-02-15 by Lars Bruzelius.

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