AN INTERESTING BARQUE.
iiiers -are probably'-■,very! few vessels now afloat which have iiad as many names as the four-masted barque Muscoota, wKich was sold recently in Australia, Originally built in 1888 as the Buckingham, she was the property of Messrs., M'Vickars, Marshall, and Company, who also owned several other similar vessels, the whole fleet of which comprised some of the largest and finest sailing vessels in the world. With the advent of steam, however, they were sold to various countries, the Buckingham, now the Muscoota, along with two other-sailers, being purchased by Germans On takingthe Buckingham over' the Germans renamed her Bertha, and mer on she was known as the' Ottawa The outbreak of war found, the Ottawa right away from her home port arid on the entry of America into the war she was .taken .over by that • nation and called the Flying Cloud, after ' the famous old clipper of that name. Again changing.hands,;she was given the name she now bears. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 7
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162AN INTERESTING BARQUE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 7
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