c. 1892, Photograph, PRG 1373/12/63
The four masted steel barque 'California', 3099 tons, in an unidentified port. [steel 4 mast ship, later 4 mast barque, 3099 tons, ON97769, 329.3 x 45.2 x 26.7. Built 1890 (4) Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Owners: North Western Shipping Co. Ltd (Ismay, Imrie and Co. managers) reg. Liverpool: sold 1896 to Ritson and Livesey, registered Liverpool: sold 1897 to German owners and renamed Alster, sold 1912 and renamed Christel Vinnen interned at Valparaiso during WW1 and allocated to Italians. Employed by them as a hulk until 1926 when refitted for sea. Stranded April 15, 1927 on Old Providence Island, near Panama, and became a total loss.]