The photo was published in the Dutch magazine De Prins dated 13 November 1920 when she arrived with a cargo of salpetre. From this harbour she was destined towards Australia with just ballast.
This four masted barque with a steel hull was on 23 January 1905 launched at the yard of Scott Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Greenock, Clyde with yard no. 391. Build on account of the Clutha Shipping Company of John Hardie&Son at Glasgow for 20.750 pound sterling. In the Official British Register she was registered under No. 121209. With a gross tonnage of 2,354 tons, net 2,048 tons and a deadweight of 3,950 tons were her dimensions 291’3”x 42’9’x 24’0”. She was fitted out with a pair of bilge keels with a length pf 120 feet. She departed from Terneuzen with master Auld on 30 October of that year arriving on 23 May of the next year at Melbourne, Australia. Returning at Cardiff on 17 November that year was she in 1922 laid up and finally sold in December 1923 for 5,500 pound sterling to Gustav Erikson of Mariehamn, Norway. After arriving at Hull on 27 August 1939 was she doomed to stay restless as her crew was held up in the by Germany occupied Norway. Two year later was she seized by the British government and taken over by the Ministry of Food. The next years she served as a store ship at Goole until in March 1947 her former owner got her temporarily released and a year again in full property. Sold to the British Iron and Steel Corporation was she in 1949 broken up by J.J. King&Co., Gateshead-on-Tyne.
The Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 20 August 1920 published a small item dealing with her arrival at Terneuzen. She brought a cargo of 3,900 tons saltpetre directly from Mexillones, Chile for the shipper firms De Meijer and Nolsen and stored in hangars. The firms possessed a floating crane for unloading such cargo’s.
