FIRTH OF LORN / EMILLE LASSEN / FORT DE FRANCE 

FIRTH OF LORN / EMILLE LASSEN / FORT DE FRANCE WAS A THREE MASTED IRON VESSEL  OF 837 TONS.SHE  WAS BUILT IN 1878 AT GLASGOW BY DOBIE & CO.HER CAPTAIN WAS CAPTAIN J COWPER

 HER FIRST OWNERS WERE J SPENSER & CO OF GLASGOW.

SHE WAS AQUIRED BY  LASSEN OF HAMBURG IN 1899 AND HAD HER NAME CHANGED  TO EMILIE LASSEN.

 SHE  CHANGED HANDS AGAIN  IN 1901 HER OWNERS NOW BEING UNION COLONIAUX WHO RE-NAMED HER  FORT DE FRANCE.

SHE WAS SCRAPPED AT THE END OF 1923. IN 1879 UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN STEVENS SHE SAILED FROM THE UK ON 6TH NOVEMBER 1879 AND ARRIVED IN LYTTYLETON ON 19TH MARCH 1880