First Lancashire

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1875 by Osbourne, Graham & Co., Sunderland, at a cost of £ 22.000. Dimensions 232'6"×36'9"×22'6" and 1405 GRT, 1354 NRT and 1268 tons under deck.

1875 October: Launched at the shipyard of Osbourne, Graham & Co., Sunderland, for H.W. Owen, Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 74480 and signal PJCF.
1875-(1890): Captain R. Jones.
1891: Sold to Richardson Brothers, Swansea.
1895: Sold to G.A. Lindblom & A. Söderlund, Åbo, Finland, and was renamed Endymion. The Finnish measurements were 69,3×10,93×6,91 meters and 1370 GRT and 1286 NRT. Captain A.K. Svahnström. [Eames has 1896]
1900: Sold to Robert Mattsson, Mariehamn. Captain Ossian Pettersson.
1917 April 4: Sailed from Liverpool for Mobile under command of Captain M. Johansson.
1917 April 16: Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine close to the SW coast of Ireland.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.

Updated 1998-01-24 by Lars Bruzelius

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