ETHIOPIAN 

ETHIOPIAN WAS BUILT IN 1864 BY WALTER HOOD & CO AT ABERDEEN.

SHE DID A MAIDEN VOYAGE TO MELBOURNE

FROM 1861 TO 1871 SHE WAS ON THE TEA TRADE TO CHINA

SHE WAS CONVERTED TO A BARQUE IN 1886

IN 1888 SHE WAS SOLD TO R LINES OF FREDRIKSTAD BUT RETAINED THE SAME NAME ( A REPORT THAT SHE WAS NOT SOLD TO THE NORWEGIAN COMPANY UNTIL 1894 )

ON A VOYAGE FROM ST THOMAS TO CORK IN SEPTEMBER 1894 SHE WAS ABANDONED NEAR THE WESTERN ISLES AND LATER TOWED INTO ST MICHAEL'S WHERE SHE WAS CONDEMMED AS NOT BEING WORTH REPAIRING