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1900 - Tragedy on the 'Crown of Scotland' - Deliberately Kills His Shipmate, Then Jumps Overboard and When Rescue is Near Commits Suicide - One sailor stabs his sleeping companion, then leaving his sheathknife in his victim's breast he rushes on deck and plunges over the side. - The San Francisco Call [1244] [1240] 14th December 1900.
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c.1890 - The iron ship 'Crown of Scotland,' 1,617 tons, anchored in an unidentified port. Owned by The Crown Line / Robertson, Cruikshank & Company, Liverpool. - [ A.D. Edwardes Collection - State Library of Australia - Reference : PRG 1373/9/58] [1245]
She was an iron hulled, fully rigged, ship launched in 1883 at the Queen's Dock yard of Thos. Royden & Sons , Liverpool. She was condemned following damage sustained during a grounding at Philadelphia during december 1911. Her vital statistics were 1,317 gross and 1,483 net register tons being 249.7 ft. long x 38.3 ft. breath and 22 ft. deep. [1246]
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