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Lawhill - (1899-1911)
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"Lawhill" - 9.1899 - 2,942 GT
Built by W. B. Thompson & Co. Ltd., Dundee, for C. Barnie, Dundee.
Measurements: 333 feet (oa)/317 feet length X 45 feet breadth.
Four-masted barque.
1899: (Anglo-American).
1904: Dismasted and re-rigged as a baldheaded barque. Topgallant masts stepped abaft topmasts.
1911: (G. Windram & Co., Liverpool).
1914: (A. Troberg, Mariehamn, Finland).
1917: (Captain Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn - in group ownership).
1918: (Captain Gustaf Erikson). Became sole owner while ship was held by Allies at Brest.
Employed in the South Australian grain trade and was in the grain fleet in 1927. Last pre-war voyage
was Port Victoria to Falmouth. Laid up in Rothesay Bay in 1939. Sailed for Port Victoria and left there
in May, 1941, arriving East London (South Africa) July, 1941, where she was held as a prize as Finland
had joined with Germany in war.
4.1942: (Government of South Africa). Application for ownership granted by the Prize Court at Cape Town.
9.1942: Sailed for Bunbury, Western Australia, and continued in the grain trade to South Africa until 1946.
1946: (Lawhill (Prop) Ltd., Cape Town). One voyage.
1947 - 48: (C. V. Webb, Cape Town).
1948: (Mario da Silva Jr., Lourenco Marques).
1949: Laid up Delagoa Bay.
1957: Beached near mouth of Matola River.
1959: Cut up for scrap.
"Lawhill".
"Lawhill" was build in 1892.
( Picture by Green, Allan C. 1878-1954 photographer )
"Lawhill"
"Lawhill"
"Lawhill" of 1892, painted by A. .V Gregory.
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"Lawhil".