Grace Harwar

Date of launch1889
Place of launchPort Glasgow
Type3-masted steel ship
GRT1816
NRT1749
DWT2950
Length84.3 m (276.6 ft)
Beam11.6 m (38.2 ft)
Draft7.1 m (23.3 ft)

  • 1889
    Built of steel in Port Glasgow by W. Hamilton & Co. She was rigged as a full-rigged ship carrying royals over double topgallant sails on the fore- and main masts, and a royal over a single topgallant sail on the mizzen.

  • January 1913
    Sold to the Finnish Rederi Ab Delfin, Helsinki.

  • 1916
    Sold to Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn and ended up going regularly on the Australian wheat trade, as most of Erikson's ships.

  • 1935
    Scrapped in Charlestown. Grace Harwar was by then the last Finnish full-rigger in freight traffic.


Pictures:
The Grace Harwar


References:
  • Sten Lille, Lars Grönstrand: Suomen valtameripurjehtijat, ISBN 951-9064-31-1, published by Etelä-Suomen Kustannus Oy 1979

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