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Lawhill
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Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the top-gallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century. Although her career was not especially remarkable, save perhaps for being consistently profitable as a cargo carrier, in the 1930s Richard Cookson went on board and extensively documented Lawhill's internals and construction, which was later published in the Anatomy of the Ship series.
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Name | Lawhill |
Ordered | 1891 |
Laid down | January 1892 |
Launched | 24 August 1892 |
Captured | by South Africa on August 21, 1941 |
Fate | Broken up 1959 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 6.400 ts |
Length |
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Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
Draught | 24.4 ft (7.4 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan |
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Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Complement | 25–30 |
Notes | Rigging: four-masted steel barque rigged with double topgallant sails over double topsails and no royal sails, as a very special feature the topgallant masts attached aft of the topmast |
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Between 1940-1944, the Donkeyman on the Lawhill was B.V. Linderman of Finland. During his time aboad the Lawhill under Captain Arthur. A. Söderlund, Lindeman rounded Cape Horn 3 times under sail.