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Official Number
139003 |
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Official Number
139003 |
The Solway Lass was a steel fore-and-aft schooner, built at Martenshoek, Holland in 1902. She was originally named Stina, then from 1905 Adolf, and worked in and around the Baltic and North Sea. In 1915 the schooner was captured by the British, and was reputedly later used as a Q-ship. After the War the schooner was bought by Solway owners and became known as the Dumfries. At some time she was modified as an auxiliary schooner, fitted with a paraffin motor. She was later renamed Solway Lass.
In 1924 she was jointly owned by John & James Carswell of Barrbridge Mills, Dalbeattie, and Allen John Greenway, Master Mariner. In 1936 her shares were bought by Anne Jane Anderson of Portmadoc, wife of her master (who reputedly died on board after being overcome by leaking fumes in the engine room). After being laid up for some time, the Solway Lass was sold on the 22nd March 1938 to Danish owners. She loaded a cargo of slates at Portmadoc and sailed to Denmark, reaching Ymuiden after a stormy passage of 27 days and Copenhagen after a further 13 days at sea.
The Germans seized the vessel during WW2 and at some time the schooner struck two mines and had to be beached, but was salvaged. In 1948 she was still trading around the Danish islands, under the name of Bent. She later was sent to the South Pacific, and worked in inter-island trade until the 1980's.
In 1983 the schooner was bought by an Australian, Tim Lloyd, in Fjii. She was renamed Solway Lass and was totally rebuilt at Sydney over a period of two years. She became a charter boat for passengers, sailing mainly around the Whitsunday islands and the Great Barrier reef. In 1988 she took part with other tall ships in the 1st Fleet re-enactment in Sydney Harbour.
The current specifications of the Solway Lass are :127ft (33m)
long and beam of 20ft with a weight of 120 tonnes. She has two masts and
ten sail, with a sail area of 5500 square feet.
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