Acme

A steel four-masted barque built in 1901 by Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME.
Dimensions: 101,24×13,81×7,95 meters [332'2"×45'4"×26'1"] and tonnage: 3288 GRT and 2987 NRT. Rigged with dubbel top- and topgallant sails and royal sails.

1901 May 21

Launched at the shipyard of Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME, for Standard Oil Co., New York.

1913

Sold to the Alaska Packers' Association, San Francisco, CA, and was renamed Star of Poland.

1918 September 15

Stranded on the East coast of Katsura on voyage from the US to Japan.

References:

• Four- and five masted ships, general references.
• Huycke, Harold: Additional Notes on Star of Lapland ex Atlas.
  The American Neptune Vol. 17, Salem, 1957. p 65.
• Thober, Frank W.: American Oil Ships. Astral, Acme, and Atlas.
  Nautical research Journal Vol. 8, Brooklyn, 1956. pp 2-10, ill.
• Thober, Frank W.: American Oil Ships. The Barks Acme, Astral, and Atlas.
  Nautical research Journal Vol. 11, Brooklyn, 1960. pp 7-17, ill.

Updated 1999-03-13 by Lars Bruzelius.

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