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Friday 3 July 2015

British bark ship John O Gaunt for sale according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 30 March 1890

An announcement reported the intended sale of the well known iron built bark ship John O Gaunt with a measurement of 1.275 register tons, built at Liverpool, England in 1869 and which transported 1.828 tons of nitrate. She was a very fast ship regarded the voyage of just 79 days from Pisagua, Chile towards Qeenstown, England. At the moment she was lying at Dunkirk, France to unload her cargo. Dimensions 219.5 x 37.2 x 22.8 feet. More details could be asked at C.W. Bellock, shipbrokers at Liverpool.