

The Crown of Germany was a four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by Workman, Clark & Co., Belfast. Here’s its history:*
1892 May Launched at the shipyard of Workman, Clark & Co., Belfast, for W. Gibson & Co.
1893 Sold to J. Reid, Belfast.
1900 Sold to Potter Bros, London.
1910 April 21 Sold to Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and renamed Fischbek.
1910 July 19 Wrecked at False Cove near Thetis Bay at the Straits of Le Marie [Argentina].
*See: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Crown_of_Germany(1892).html
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