Duntrune

A three-masted iron full-rigged ship built in 1875 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee. Dimensions 245'2"×38'3"×23'0" and tonnage 1561 GRT, 1488 NRT, and 1388 tons under deck.

Sister ship to the same owner's full-rigged ship Maulesden (1875).

1875 May: Launched at the shipyard of Alexander Stephens & Sons, Dundee, for the Dundee Clipper Line. Assigned the English signal letters PBNT.
1879: Owned by D. Bruce & Co., Dundee, and commanded by Capt. Sangster [LR 1879-89]
1881—1884: Captain Littlejohn.
1889: Owned by D. Bruce & Co., Dundee [LR 1889-90].
1891: In command of Captain John Jarvis.
1892: Lost jibboom, foretopmast, and figurehead in collision with an icberg at 43° S. The voyage continued round Cape Horn to Falmouth nder jury-rig.
1895: Sailed from Prawle Point to Melbourne in 74 days.
1896: Sailed to Portland, OR.
1899 October 3: Partially dismasted 150 nm W of Cambridge Island, Chile.
1899 October 13: Anchored off the Cambridge Island and is supposed to have been lost sometime after the 17th when part of the crew left the ship to seek assistantce.

Refernces:

Jarvis, John C.B.: Duntrune in the Ice.
Sea Breezes Vol. 7, Liverpool, 1949. pp 130-133, ill.

Updated 1998-02-03 by Lars Bruzelius

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