Nivelle

A four-masted steel barque built in 1897 by Scott & Co., Greenock. Dimensions: 89,10×13,15×7,36 meters [292'4"×43'2"×24'2"] and tonnage: 2430 GRT and 2262 NRT. Rigged with double top and topgallant sails and royal sails.

Sistership to the same owner's fourmasted barque Hougomont (1897).

1897 May 20: Launched at the shipyard of Scott & Co., Greenock, as Yard No. 345 for Nivelle Shipping Co. Ltd. (J. Hardie & Co. mgrs), Glasgow. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 106074. Captain G.T.F. Williams was given command of the new vessel.
1898: Sailed from New York to Shanghai in 162 days with a cargo of case oil.
1900: Transferred to J. Hardie Co.
1900: Sailed from New York to Hong Kong in 154 days with a cargo of case oil.
1906 June 30: Drifted ashore and was wrecked at Point Grande, Valparaiso, on voyage from Newcastle, NSW, to Antofagasta with coal. [Mowat has June 20].

Updated 1997-01-24 by Lars Bruzelius.

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