BRASILIA / NORSEMAN

BUILT BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN 1898? AT BELFAST, FOR THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE.

 SHE WAS SOLD BACK TO HARLAND AND WOLFF IN IN 1900, WHO THEN SOLD HER TO THE DOMINION LINE, WHO RE-NAMED HER ' NORSEMAN ' AND ALSO HAD HER RE-FITTED, INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF TWO EXTRA MASTS, TAKING THE TOTAL TO FOUR. ( THE TOP PICTURE SHOWS HER IN  DOMINION LIVERY ) 

FROM 1910 TO 1914 SHE WAS CHARTERED TO THE ABERDEEN LINE.THE REASON FOR HER CHARTER WAS TO REPLACE ' PERICLES ', WHICH HAD FOUNDERED ON A REEF A FEW MILES OF CAPE LEEUWIN, AUSTRALIA. 

IN 1914 SHE WAS TORPEDOED IN THE GULF OF SALONICA BY THE GERMAN SUBMARINE U39 WHILE ON A VOYAGE FROM PLYMOUTH TO SALONICA, SHE WAS TOWED TO MUDROS, WHERE SHE LAY UNTIL 1920, WHEN SHE WAS SCRAPPED.