Romsdal

A four-masted iron ship built in 1877 by R. Steele, Greenock. Dimensions: 84,04×12,51×7,13 meters [275'9"×41'1"×23'5"] and tonnage 1887 GRT and 1827 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double top and single topgallant sails.

1877 October: Launched at the shipyard of R. Steele, Greenock, for J.A. Allan, Glasgow. Used in the Indian jute trade. Captain J. Jarman was the first master of the ship.
1883 May [?] - August 10: Sailed from Plymouth to Adelaide.
1884 April 26 - August 1: Sailed from Dundee to Rangoon in 97 days.
1884 September 20 - January 1: Sailed from Rangoon to Queenstown in 103 days.
1885 December 17 - April 6: Sailed from San Francisco to Liverpool in 110 days.
1886 May 30 - August 19: Off Tuscar to Calcutta in 81 days.
1888 May 10 - September 4: Sailed from Cardiff to San Francisco in 116 days.
1888 November 3 - March 5: Sailed from San Francisco to Queenstown in 122 days.
1891 May 20 - August 21: Sailed from Liverpool to Chittagong in 93 days.
1891 October 31: Left Chittagon with a cargo of jute for Dundee in company with the County of Selkirk.
1891 November 2: Foundered in a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Bengal. The County of Selkirk was able to survive the storm.

Updated 1997-04-07 by Lars Bruzelius.

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