A full-rigged steel ship built in 1889 by Wm. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow. For W Montgomery & Co London. : L.266'7"B. 39'1" Dr. 23'5" and tonnage: 1816gtns , forecastle was 31 ft long and the poop 39 ft. Rigged with royal sails over double topgallant sails. The mizzen topgallant sail was single.
1910 July 30 - October 25 Sailed from London with a cargo of cement to Talcahuano in 87 days. 1911 March 9 Sailed from Newcastle, NSW, to Coquimbo, Chile, with a cargo of coal in 39 days.
1913 January Sold to Finska Rederi AB Delfin (Georg Stenius), Helsingfors, Finland..
1916 July 5 Drifted ashore together with the four-masted barque Frieda during a hurricane while loading pitchpine at Mobile,. Both ships were severely damaged. The Grace Harwar lost most of her rigging.
1916 Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn, Alland, for FIM 940 000.
1929 April to February 1935 averaged two return voyages per year to Australia on the grain run.
1935 March 18 - June 24 Sailed from Port Broughton Australia
to Falmouth in 98 days. GRACE HARWAR was the last square rigger to carry a commercial cargo. August 1935 Sold to be broken up at Chatlestown.
Ted Evans, Liverpool.
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Grace Harwar
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Built as a steel hulled full rigger merchant ship by WILLIAM HAMILTON & Co for W. Montgomery in London.
October 1889 launched as the GRACE HARWAR, named after the wife of owner Montgomery.
Tonnage 1,877 grt, 1,749 nrt, dim. 266.7 x 39.1 x 23.5 ft.
Her maiden voyage was under command of Captain B, Hunt, he was relieved in 1897 by Captain J.C. Briscoe who kept command till 1907.
1907 Captain C.S. Hudson took over command and when the GRACE HARWAR arrived in Newcastle NSW Australia he married Ruth Geraldine Wrigall old 28 years, after married. Ruth would join her husband on board, Ruth had tuberculosis and a sea voyage would be good for her health they were thinking. But it was not the best time of year for a sea voyage, was winter and a voyage over the South Pacific to Chile is not a good place for a person with tuberculosis, and her health deteriorated quickly, when the ship arrived in Tocapilla Bay on 22 June 1907 she died that day at 05.30 a.m.
Her body was embalmed with the intention to bring her back to Australia, after discharging was she buried in the ballasts sand in the hold and Hudson took his wife corps back to Newcastle, where he left the ship.
17 September 1907 command was taken over at Newcastle NSW by J.E.Galss Jamss.
30 July 1910 she sailed from London with a cargo of cement in drums under command of Captain Fearon arrived in Talcahuano 25 October 1910 after a passage of 87 days.
After discharging the cement in Talcahuano, Valparaiso and Huasco she sailed from Huasco on 07 December in ballast to Newcastle NSW in 56 days. She loaded then coal for Coquimbo, Chile were she arrived on 15 April 1911 after a passage of 39 days. After discharging at Coquimbo she loaded a cargo of nitrate at Iquique. On June 11 the anchorage was swept by a violent hurricane. There were 27 ships anchored in the bay, and with the violence of the storm all began to drag there anchors. The night was black as ebony and the air was filled with dust and sand. Captain Fearon slipped the stern cable of the GRACE HARWAR but she swung, under the stern of the French steamer MAGELLAN. Both vessels were locked together grinding terribly and the figurehead and headgear of the GRACE HARWAR were swept away and the bowsprit was knocked on end. The GRACE HARWAR eventually swung clear and at 2 am, came the eerie calm-centre of the hurricane. It lasted for only five minutes, and then the wind came again with re- doubled fury from the opposite quarter. The GRACE HARWAR again swung to her cable and crashed into a German four masted barque but fell away again and managed to ride out the hurricane. Every ship in port was damaged, a French barque became a total loss on the beach and an Italian ship sank at her moorings. Scores of lighters were smashed or sunk. Ten days later another hurricane swept the crowded anchorage and again the fleet of ships crashed into each other. The GRACE HARWAR had a tussle with a German steamer in which her damaged bow sprit was completely torn out. Captain Fearon sailed his ship round the Horn and home to England without a bowsprit but when making to an anchorage in Falmouth Harbour the GRACE HARWAR ran down the Italian steamer ORIANA. Captain Fearon's wife was on the ship with him in all these adventures.
After receiving orders, were to discharge she left for Hamburg from Falmouth towed by a tug after discharging there she was towed to Cardiff were she arrived in February 1912. Captain Fearon after a career of 41 year at sea left the ship and went with retirement.
The GRACE HARWAR was sold to Finska Rederi AB Delfin (Georg Stenius), Helsingfors, at that time Finland was part of the Russian Imperium, that the GRACE HARWAR carried the Russian flag till 1917. Command was taken over by C.V. Nygrén.
The GRACE HARWAR had an even worse experience in a hurricane. On July 5, 1916, while loading pitcpine at Mobile a hurricane struck the city, killing hundreds of people, razing buildings and causing damage amounting to several millions of dollars. At the height of the storm the wind was recorded at 107 miles an hour. The GRACE HARWAR and another Russian ship, the FRIEDA, broke adrift. Both were washed up high and dry on the wharf of the Texas Oil Company, one ship on top of the other. They were severely damaged. But as it was war time and shipping tonnage was valuable, they were both repaired. During that terrible storm dozens of vessels, large and small were driven ashore, and others were blown for miles up the Mobile River.
1916 Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn for FIM 940.000, not renamed.
She was then mostly used in the trade between Europe to Australia and the west coast of South America.
In 1929 two Australian journalists, Messrs. Alan Villiers and Ronald Walker joined the GRACE HARWAR for the purpose of making a moving-picture record of a voyage round the Horn from Wallaroo (S.A.) to Falmouth. The voyage took 138, day's, and was stormy in the extreme. Ronald Walker, who was aged only 22 years, was crushed beneath a falling yard on May 25, and was buried at sea on the stormy highway between New Zealand and the Horn. Villiers continued taking pictures of the tragic passage, and eventually produced the only moving picture record of a "windjammer" voyage around the Horn.
Her last loaded voyage was with grain from Port Broughton, Australia to Falmouth for orders where she arrived on 24 June 1935 a passage of 98 days.
01 July 1935 left Falmouth bound for London, arrived there 05 July and was towed from there on 16 July to Charlestown.
20 July 1935 under command of Captain Holm she arrived in Charlestown, Firth of Forth, Scotland for scrapping.
Falkland Islands 1989 50p sg579.
Source: North Eastern Advertiser 08 Oct. 1935. http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships ... 1889).html
October 1889 launched as the GRACE HARWAR, named after the wife of owner Montgomery.
Tonnage 1,877 grt, 1,749 nrt, dim. 266.7 x 39.1 x 23.5 ft.
Her maiden voyage was under command of Captain B, Hunt, he was relieved in 1897 by Captain J.C. Briscoe who kept command till 1907.
1907 Captain C.S. Hudson took over command and when the GRACE HARWAR arrived in Newcastle NSW Australia he married Ruth Geraldine Wrigall old 28 years, after married. Ruth would join her husband on board, Ruth had tuberculosis and a sea voyage would be good for her health they were thinking. But it was not the best time of year for a sea voyage, was winter and a voyage over the South Pacific to Chile is not a good place for a person with tuberculosis, and her health deteriorated quickly, when the ship arrived in Tocapilla Bay on 22 June 1907 she died that day at 05.30 a.m.
Her body was embalmed with the intention to bring her back to Australia, after discharging was she buried in the ballasts sand in the hold and Hudson took his wife corps back to Newcastle, where he left the ship.
17 September 1907 command was taken over at Newcastle NSW by J.E.Galss Jamss.
30 July 1910 she sailed from London with a cargo of cement in drums under command of Captain Fearon arrived in Talcahuano 25 October 1910 after a passage of 87 days.
After discharging the cement in Talcahuano, Valparaiso and Huasco she sailed from Huasco on 07 December in ballast to Newcastle NSW in 56 days. She loaded then coal for Coquimbo, Chile were she arrived on 15 April 1911 after a passage of 39 days. After discharging at Coquimbo she loaded a cargo of nitrate at Iquique. On June 11 the anchorage was swept by a violent hurricane. There were 27 ships anchored in the bay, and with the violence of the storm all began to drag there anchors. The night was black as ebony and the air was filled with dust and sand. Captain Fearon slipped the stern cable of the GRACE HARWAR but she swung, under the stern of the French steamer MAGELLAN. Both vessels were locked together grinding terribly and the figurehead and headgear of the GRACE HARWAR were swept away and the bowsprit was knocked on end. The GRACE HARWAR eventually swung clear and at 2 am, came the eerie calm-centre of the hurricane. It lasted for only five minutes, and then the wind came again with re- doubled fury from the opposite quarter. The GRACE HARWAR again swung to her cable and crashed into a German four masted barque but fell away again and managed to ride out the hurricane. Every ship in port was damaged, a French barque became a total loss on the beach and an Italian ship sank at her moorings. Scores of lighters were smashed or sunk. Ten days later another hurricane swept the crowded anchorage and again the fleet of ships crashed into each other. The GRACE HARWAR had a tussle with a German steamer in which her damaged bow sprit was completely torn out. Captain Fearon sailed his ship round the Horn and home to England without a bowsprit but when making to an anchorage in Falmouth Harbour the GRACE HARWAR ran down the Italian steamer ORIANA. Captain Fearon's wife was on the ship with him in all these adventures.
After receiving orders, were to discharge she left for Hamburg from Falmouth towed by a tug after discharging there she was towed to Cardiff were she arrived in February 1912. Captain Fearon after a career of 41 year at sea left the ship and went with retirement.
The GRACE HARWAR was sold to Finska Rederi AB Delfin (Georg Stenius), Helsingfors, at that time Finland was part of the Russian Imperium, that the GRACE HARWAR carried the Russian flag till 1917. Command was taken over by C.V. Nygrén.
The GRACE HARWAR had an even worse experience in a hurricane. On July 5, 1916, while loading pitcpine at Mobile a hurricane struck the city, killing hundreds of people, razing buildings and causing damage amounting to several millions of dollars. At the height of the storm the wind was recorded at 107 miles an hour. The GRACE HARWAR and another Russian ship, the FRIEDA, broke adrift. Both were washed up high and dry on the wharf of the Texas Oil Company, one ship on top of the other. They were severely damaged. But as it was war time and shipping tonnage was valuable, they were both repaired. During that terrible storm dozens of vessels, large and small were driven ashore, and others were blown for miles up the Mobile River.
1916 Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn for FIM 940.000, not renamed.
She was then mostly used in the trade between Europe to Australia and the west coast of South America.
In 1929 two Australian journalists, Messrs. Alan Villiers and Ronald Walker joined the GRACE HARWAR for the purpose of making a moving-picture record of a voyage round the Horn from Wallaroo (S.A.) to Falmouth. The voyage took 138, day's, and was stormy in the extreme. Ronald Walker, who was aged only 22 years, was crushed beneath a falling yard on May 25, and was buried at sea on the stormy highway between New Zealand and the Horn. Villiers continued taking pictures of the tragic passage, and eventually produced the only moving picture record of a "windjammer" voyage around the Horn.
Her last loaded voyage was with grain from Port Broughton, Australia to Falmouth for orders where she arrived on 24 June 1935 a passage of 98 days.
01 July 1935 left Falmouth bound for London, arrived there 05 July and was towed from there on 16 July to Charlestown.
20 July 1935 under command of Captain Holm she arrived in Charlestown, Firth of Forth, Scotland for scrapping.
Falkland Islands 1989 50p sg579.
Source: North Eastern Advertiser 08 Oct. 1935. http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships ... 1889).html
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Grece Harwar. The design stamp is made after painting of Christopher Blossom.
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