This 4-mast barque was ordered to be build in 1891 at the Caledon Shipbuilding&Engineering Company at Dundee, Scotland (owned by W.B. Thompson) for Carls Barrie originally to be used in the jute trade, laid down in January a year later and launched on 24 August of the same year and finally broken up in 1959. With a displacement of 6,400 tons were her dimensions 317’4” (between perpendiculars)- 334-(deck)-374 (hull)-382 (over all) x 45 x 24’4”. With a sail area of 43,06 square feet was her speed 17 knots. Her crew numbered between the 25 and 30 men.
The Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 17 April 1934 (at that moment she was Finnish property) reported that her captain solved the fate of the Danish training vessel Kopenhagen which was missing since 1929. Hundreds miles south of the Australian Gulf he discovered wreckage of the Danish ship which probably struck an iceberg and immediately sunk with on board 60 cadets. The same newspaper reported in an earlier item dated 14 December 1933 that she departed London a week earlier for a cargo of grain destined towards Australia and was forced to anchor on a distance of 350 metres from the coast of Deal caused by extremely worse weather condition. She had to wait for help of a tug coming from Dover.
The photo was published in the Dutch magazine Gelderland in woord en beeld dated 16 August 1935 when she was unloading a cargo of grain using an elevator into a large new silo in the harbour of London.
