Montrose

Iron full-rigged ship built in 1863 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 194'8×34'5×21'3 and tonnage 984 NRT and 1022 DWT. Later re-rigged as a barque.

1863: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for Cowie & Co., Liverpool.
c1885: Re-rigged as a barque.
1888 July 23: Sold to Hans Peter Breckwoldt Jr, Blankenese (Hamburg), and was renamed Montrosa. Assigned the German signal RHKL. The new German measurements were 60,95×10,52×6,55 meters and 1022 GRT.
1898 October: Sold to Manuel Eriksson and other partowners from Lemland, Åland, for £ 2500. The new Finnish measurements were 59,9×10,66×6,47 meters.
1916: The crew unsuccessfully tried to sink the ship but it was salvaged into Hull.
1928 November: Received severe rig damage during a storm in the North Sea and had to seek refuge at Cuxhaven. From there she was towed to London.
1929: Condemned and sold for £ 1500 to be broken up at Brügge, Belgium.

References:

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

Updated 1997-04-05 by Lars Bruzelius

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