Ormsary

A four-masted steel barque built in 1903 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 84,93×12,82×7,43 meters [278'8"×42'1"×24'5"] and tonnage 2251 GRT and 2099 NRT. Equipped with water ballast tanks with a capacity of 1234 tons. Rigged in jubilee fashion, i.e. nothing above double top and topgallant sails.

1903 January: Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for the Ship Ormsary Co. (Lang & Fulton), Greenock.
1906 September 13: Left Caleta Coloso with nitrate for Antwerpen and disappeared on the way. The Shipping Gazette Weekly Summary suggested on May 3, 1907, that the Ormsary was "probably lost in the ice".

Updated 1997-04-19 by Lars Bruzelius.

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