Bark (3m).
L/B/D:
231 × 36.1 × 20.5 dph (70.4m × 11m × 6.2m). Tons:
1,279 grt. Comp.:
21. Built:
Archibald McMillan & Son, Ltd., Dumbarton, Scotland; 1890.
Built as a general cargo carrier, Arethusa traded to the Far East, the colonial trade to Australia, and the nitrate trade from Chile. She gained lasting fame when the young Rex Clements, who signed aboard her as an apprentice in about 1901, wrote of his first voyage in her—eighteen months from London to Adelaide, Newcastle, Callao, Pisco, and home again—in Gipsy of the Horn: A Narrative of a Voyage Round the World in a Windjammer, published in 1924. Arethusa carried on through World War I, until she was intercepted and sunk by a German submarine about 15 miles northwest of Achill Island, on April 24, 1917.
Clements, Gipsy of the Horn.
