Glenlee (ship)
Glenlee as Galatea in 1922 at Cartagena Harbour
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 United Kingdom
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| Builder: | Anderson Rodger & Company, Bay Yard, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland |
| Cost: | £24,000 (1896) |
| Yard number: | 324 |
| Launched: | 3 December 1896 |
| Maiden voyage: | 13 December 1896 |
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| Fate: | Sold 1919 |
 Italy
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| Name: | Clarastella |
| Owner: | Società Italiana di Navigazione Stella d'Italia |
| Acquired: | 1919 |
| Homeport: | Genoa (1919-1922) |
| Fate: | Sold 1922 |
 Spain
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| Name: | Galatea |
| Owner: | Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales, Spanish Navy |
| Acquired: | 1922 |
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| Fate: | Sold 1993 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | Glenlee |
| Owner: | Clyde Maritime Trust, Glasgow |
| Acquired: | 1993 |
| Homeport: | Glasgow |
| Status: | Museum ship |
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| Type: | Three-masted barque |
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| Displacement: | c. 2,990 tons |
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| Beam: | 37.5 ft (11.4 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 22.5 ft (6.9 m) |
Glenlee is a steel-hulled three-masted barque, built in 1896 for Glasgow owners, trading as a cargo ship. From 1922 she was a sail training ship in the Spanish Navy. She is now a museum ship at the Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay, Glasgow, known as The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour.
Glenlee was built by Anderson Rodger & Company at their Bay Shipyard in Port Glasgow for the Glen-line of the Glasgow shipping company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd., and was launched on 3 December 1896. She has a hull length of 245.5 ft (74.8 m), beam of 37.5 ft (11.4 m) and depth of 22.5 ft (6.9 m), the over-all length with the spike bowsprit is 282 ft (86 m).
She has 1,613 GRT and 1,490 NRT. Rigged only with double topgallant sails over double top sails, she was not equipped with royal sails (baldheader rigging) to save costs concerning gear and seamen. As with many baldheaded sailing ships the square sails were a little wider than the sails of a standard rigging to gain sail area for a better propulsion.
On 13 December 1896, just ten days after she was launched fully rigged and seaworthy, her maiden voyage brought her in ballast to Liverpool and from there with a general cargo to Portland, Oregon. For 23 years she traded as a bulk cargo carrier under the Red Ensign via Cape of Good Hope to Australia, returning via Cape Horn, firstly under the ownership of Archibald Sterling and Co, Glasgow, then as Islamount of Islamount Sailing Ship Co Ltd (Robert Ferguson & Co), Dundee(1898-1905), and finally with the Flint Castle Shipping Co Ltd (Robert Thomas & Co), Liverpool (1905-1918).
Islamount was renamed the Clarastella in 1919 when she changed hands to the Star of Italy Italian Shipping Company (Italian: Società Italiana di Navigazione Stella d'Italia) of Milan who registered her in Genoa. The new owner had her repaired and equipped with two auxiliary diesel engines (1922).
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