Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour , Scotland

The Glenlee is a three-masted baldheaded steel-hulled barque, launched fully rigged and seaworthy on December 3, 1896 at a cost of £24,000. She is now a museum ship at the Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay, Glasgow.

Glenlee was built in 1896 at the Anderson Rodger & Company shipyard of Port Glasgow for the Glasgow shipping company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd.

The hull is 74.8 m, and it has a depth of 6.9 m, the over-all length is 86 m.
Rigged only with double topallant sails over double top sails, she was not equipped with royal sails (baldheader rigging) to save costs concerning gear and seamen.

On December 13, 1896, just ten days after launch, her maiden voyage brought her to Liverpool and from there with a general cargo to Portland, Oregon. For 23 years she traded as a bulk cargo carrier under the Red Ensign to Cape Horn and Australia, firstly under the ownership of Islamount Sailing Ship Co. of Dundee, 1898-1905, and subsequently with Flint Castle Shipping Co. of Liverpool, 1905-1918).

Glenlee was renamed the Clarastella in 1919 when she changed hands to the Italian "Società Di Navigazione Stella d'Italia" of Milan who registered her in Genoa.

In 1922 the ship was used as a sail training ship and during this period underwent a lot of changes to her hull and superstructure. A flying bridge was installed on the poop deck, a flying jibboom was attached to the spike bowsprit, and many other changes such as the installation of accommodation facilities for 300 cadets were made.

In 1993 she was rescued from being scrapped and subsequently bought by the Clyde Maritime Trust at auction for £40,000.

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