Category:Ancona (ship, 1893)

Ship

• Type: Four-masted steel barque
• Built by: Russell & Co, Greenock
• Yard No: 317
• Launch date: 11.1893
• Date of completion: 1893 at a cost of £ 26.000.
• Length over all: 85.39 m
• LPP: m
• Beam: 13.61 m
• Draught: 6.92 m
• GRT: 2,852
• DWT:
• NET: 2,570
• Sail area: Rigged in Jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top- and topgallant sails.
• Fitted with water ballast tanks with a capacity of 1,350 tons.

History

• 1893 Named: Ancona for The Ship Ancona Co. (G.T. Soley & Co.), Liverpool. Captain T. Long.
• 1906 Managed by Lang & Fulton, Greenock.
• 30.11.1906 Lost in the Bay of Biscay due to fire.