Colonial Empire

• 10 February 1902
  Built of steel by J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow for G. Dunkan & Co., London. She was rigged as a four-masted barque carrying double topgallant sails but no royals. She was the second of four sister ships, the other ones being Octavia, Schürbek and Mneme.

• 1917
  Wrecked at Thunderbolt Reef, Algoa Bay on a voyage from New York to Port Elisabeth under command of captain James A. Sanders of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Thanks to Stuart McLean for providing some of the information above.

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