Earl Dalhousie

A wooden full-rigged ship built in 1862 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee. Dimensions 191'5"×34'8"×22'0" and tonnage 1047 GRT, 1047 NRT, and 932 tons under deck.

1862 September: Launched at the shipyard of Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee, for their own account. Assigned the British signal letters QFSD.
1865: Commanded by Captain J. Campbell [LR 1865-66].
1870: Commanded by Captain J. Campbell [LR 1870-71].
1872: Commanded by Captain J. Campbell [LR 1872-73].
1874: Converted to a barque in conjunction with the twelve year survey. Command of the ship was given to Captain David Jarvis.
1874 November: Sailed from Plymouth with emigrants for Port Adelaide where she arrived after 84 days.
1879: Sailed from Great Britain to Brisbane in 82 days.; Sailed from Brisbane to Rouen.
1880: Captain John Jarvis replaced his father as master of the ship.; Sailed from London to Brisbane in 84 days.; Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to San Francisco in 70 days.; Sailed from San Francisco in 114 days.
1883: Sailed from London to Honolulu [120 days from Ponta Delgada, Azores].; Sailed from Honolulu to San Francisco in 18 days.; Sailed from San Francisco to London with a cargo of grain at 50 shilling/ton. The cargo shifted in a severe storm in the North Atlantic. When she had been pumped dry and the cargo trimmed she was able to continue to Falmouth.
1883: Sold to J.D. Bischoff, Bremen-Vegesack, for £ 2851 and was renamed Meta Seeger.
1887: Wrecked at the Tierra Fuego and was abandoned by the crew.

Updated 1996-05-07 by Lars Bruzelius

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