British Merchant
Ship Number
137
Vessel Type
Sailing Ship
Built
Belfast
Launch Date
25 August 1880
Delivered
7 October 1880
Owner
British Shipowners Ltd
Weight
1742 grt
BP Length
256 feet
Breadth
38 feet
No. of Screws
Speed (approx)
Propulsion
Sail
Official No.
81399
Registered
Liverpool
Fate
Sank
 British Merchant

[Malcolm Brodie Collection]

She had an old fashioned bowsprit and jib-boom, extending 65 feet outside the knightheads, for and main lower topmasts in one, fore and main lower yards 87 feet 11 inches, lower topsail 78 feet 6 inches, upper topsail 71 feet 6 inches, topgallant sail 54 feet and royal 40 feet.
  
Sold to D. Cordes & Company of Bremen in 1896 she was renamed the Authur Fitger. She sailed under the German flag until 1908, where she caught fire while laying in Shilshole Bay, Seattle, with a load of timber aboard. After the fire had been put out the ship was bought by Captain Griffiths, of Seattle, and converted into a towing barge, with her name again changed to Quatrino. The end came on the 15th October, 1909. In tow of the tug Goliath she was being taken to Cordoba with 3,000 tons of coal. The light on Green Island was out, and the pilot, mistaking the surveyor's beacon on Grey Island, headed the tug between the two islands and piled his tow up, the poor old ship becoming a total loss.