Routenburn

A four-masted iron barque built in 1881 by Steele, Greenock. Her dimensions were: 289'0×42'2×23'9 and tonnage: 2094 GRT and 1935 NRT.

1881 April: Launched at the shipyard of Steele, Greenock, for the "Burn"-line of R. Shankland & Co., Greenock.
1884-1886: Captain W. Harnell.
1886 April -1886: Captain H. Holmyard.
1900-: Captain G. Roberts.
c1901-: Captain Dalrymple of Dumfries.
1905: Captain F.P. Horsefall.
1905 November 27: Sold to Rederi AB Navigator (John E. Olsen), Gothenburg, for £ 6000 to be used as a sail training ship and was renamed Svithiod. Captain Anders Falberg (1857).
1911 November 11 - January 16: Sailed from Port Talbot with a cargo to Pisagua in 88 days.
1914: Sold to Svenska Australien Linjen (W.R. Lundgren), Gothenburg, for SEK 127.000.
1922: Sold to Rederi AB Pollux (Alex. Pedersen), Gothenburg, and renamed Beatrice.
1932: Sold to A/S Stavangers Skibsophugnings Komp. for SEK 16.500 to be scrapped.
1932 October 2: Towed from Gothenburg to Stavanger to be broken up.

Select Bibliograhy

Four- and five-masted ships, general references.
Davidsson, Jan: Beatrice.
Forum, Stockholm, 1976. 4to, 184 pp, ill.
Davidsson, Jan: Till minne av den vackra clippern Beatrice.
Longitude 7, Stockholm, 1972. p 65.
Johannesson, Tomas: Pedersens rederier.
Båtologen årg. 25, Viken, 1987. pp 208-213, ill. With Fleetlist Nr 141.
Ohlson, Manfred: Victor Johnson.
Rospiggen Nr 31, Elmsta, 1970. pp 138-140, ill.
Palmqvist, Charles: På oceaner och Englands västra kust.
Västra Sverige, Göteborg, 1942. 8vo, 275 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-01-25 by Lars Bruzelius.