Quevilly

A four-masted steel barque built in 1897 by Laporte & Co., Rouen. Dimensions: 98,14×13,83×7,36 meters [322'0"×45'5"×24'2"] and tonnage 3272 GRT and 2518 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

1897 March 20: Launched at the shipyard of Laporte & Co., Rouen, for H. Prentout-Leblond & E. Boniface, Rouen. Captain Chotard.
1898: Sailed from Philadelphia to France (Rouen or Dieppe) in 17 days.
1900: Sold to H. Prentout-Leblond & E. Leroux, Rouen.
1903 November 25: Saved the crew of the American schooner Ira Bliss which was sinking 80 miles off Delaware.
1906: Sailed from Philadelphia to France (Rouen or Dieppe) in 14 days.
1910: Equipped with two aux. six-cylinder M.A.N. oil engines driving twin screws which could give her a speed of five knots. [Furrer has 1911].
1915: Sold to Leroux & Heizey, Rouen.
1917 January 26: Was run into by the USS Sampson.
1921: Laid up at Rouen.
1923: Sold to A/S Sørlandske Lloyd (K.A. Thorbjørnsen), Olso, and was de-rigged and re-built as a whale-oil tanker with the new name Deodata.
1939 October 21: On voyage from Constantza to Grangemouth she struck a mine and sank 1½ mile off the Inner Dowsing lightship.

Updated 1997-01-29 by Lars Bruzelius.

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