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Swedish barque Argo of Helsingborg
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Swedish barque Argo of Helsingborg

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Swedish barque Argo of Helsingborg
March 1920
Swedish barque Argo, of Helsingborg, at the fishmarket quay. (Crew of 21, Captain Adamsen). After five days out on voyage from Helsingborg to Newport News, U.S.A., she was off Sumburgh Head when her ballast shifted. She made for Lerwick, and was towed by two drifters to the wharf. She took on 100 tons of ballast at Lerwick. (In March 1920 the Shetland News reports the Argo at Lerwick; in a subsequent issue the S.N. erroneously calls her a Danish schooner! Similar photograph and March 1920 S.N. article reprinted in Sep. 1933 Sea Breezes) This vessel had been in Lerwick during the First World War, on 23 Nov. 1916. The Argo was originally the Evesham Abbey, built at Liverpool in 1876. She had an iron hull, steel masts. 245 feet long, 40 feet beam, gross tonnage 1686. Was later re-named Antelope, thereafter Argo.
  • Lerwick
  • Inkster, B
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