Otterburn

A four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 90,52×13,76×7,79 meters [297'0"×45'2"×25'7"] and tonnage 2663 GRT and 2499 NRT. Rigged in jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top and topgallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's fourmasted barque Miltonburn (1893).

1893 June: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for R. Shankland & Co., Greenock. Captain J. Hunter.
1900: Sold to D.H. Wätjen & Co., Bremen, and was renamed Anna. Assigned the Official German signal QGWR. The new German measurements were 87,51×13,78×7,93 meters and 2630 GRT. Captain H.W. Bohlmann.
1913 July 29: Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896, Hamburg, and was renamed Onda. Kresse gives Captain C. Köster as master while Furrer has Captain H. Schütt and says that Captain C. Köster served the previous owner.
1914: Interned at Mejillones for the duration to the war.
1920-1921: Sailed from Mejillones to Calais in 118 days with a cargo of nitrate.
1921: Delivered to France as war damage compensation.
1923: Broken up by the Deutschen Werft, Hamburg-Finkenwerder.

Updated 1997-02-15 by Lars Bruzelius.

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