Somali

A four-mast steel barque built in 1892 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions: 100,49×14,32×8,22 meters [329'9×47'0×27'0], tonnage: 3537 GRT and 3336 NRT.

1892 August
Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, for G.M. Steeves, Liverpool.
1900
Sold to AG Alster, Hamburg, and renamed Alsterdamm.
1912
Sold to F.A. Vinnen, Bremen, and renamed Adolf Vinnen.
1914
Interned in Santa Rosalia, Mexico.
1921
Sold to Robert Dollar & Co., San Francisco, and renamed Mae Dollar.
Cut down to a tow barge.
1936
Sold to Island Tug & Barge Co., Victoria, BC, and renamed Island Carrier.
1971
Broken up, now with the name Crown Zellerbach, No. 1.

Updated 1996-12-30 by Lars Bruzelius.


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