Lawhill

History
NameLawhill
Ordered1891
Laid downJanuary 1892
Launched24 August 1892
Capturedby South Africa on August 21, 1941
FateBroken up 1959
General characteristics
Displacement6.400 ts
Length
  • Total: 382 ft (116 m)
  • Hull: 347 ft (106 m)
  • On deck: 334 feet (102 m)
  • Bp: 317.4 feet (96.7 m)
Beam45 ft (14 m)
Draught24.4 ft (7.4 m)
PropulsionSail
Sail plan
  • 27 (30) sails - 15 square sails,
  • 1 spanker sail and 1 spanker topsail,
  • 6 (9) stay sails and 4 foresails
  • Area: 43,060 square feet (4,000 m2)
Speed17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement25–30
NotesRigging: 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

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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