Fullrigger MACQUARIE (1890s)
Fullrigger Macquarie photographed in the 1890s in Australia. My colorization of an image in the MS Maritime Museum of Denmark archive.
The Macquarie was an iron full-rigged ship built in 1875 by R. & H. Green, Blackwall, London. Dimensions: length × beam × depth = 169.7 × 40.1 × 23.6 ft (51.7 × 12.2 × 7.1 m) and tonnage: 1965 GRT, 1857 NRT and 1852 tons under deck. She was equipped with two decks and had a forecastle of 42 feet and a poop of 69 feet. 1953 broken up in Sydney.
Names:
Melbourne (1875-1888)
Macquarie (1888-1904)
Fortuna (1904-1953)
Fullrigger MACQUARIE (1890s)
Fullrigger Macquarie photographed in the 1890s in Australia. My colorization of an image in the MS Maritime Museum of Denmark archive.
The Macquarie was an iron full-rigged ship built in 1875 by R. & H. Green, Blackwall, London. Dimensions: length × beam × depth = 169.7 × 40.1 × 23.6 ft (51.7 × 12.2 × 7.1 m) and tonnage: 1965 GRT, 1857 NRT and 1852 tons under deck. She was equipped with two decks and had a forecastle of 42 feet and a poop of 69 feet. 1953 broken up in Sydney.
Names:
Melbourne (1875-1888)
Macquarie (1888-1904)
Fortuna (1904-1953)