# Garthpool
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{{Infobox ship
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|infobox_caption=Garthpool
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|image=Garthpool SLV AllanGreen.jpg
|image_caption= ''Garthpool''
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|section2={{Infobox ship/career
| country=United Kingdom
| flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}}
| name=''Juteopolis''
| ordered=1891
| laid_down=
| launched=3 December 1891
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| decommissioned=
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| country=Canada
| flag={{shipboxflag|Canada|1868}}
| name=''Garthpool''
| registry=Montreal
| acquired=1917
| fate=ran aground (wrecked), 11 November 1929
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| displacement=
| type=[Barque](/source/Barque)
| length={{cvt|94.5|m|ftin}}
| beam={{cvt|13.7|m|ftin}}
| complement=34 crew, 7 passengers
| tonnage = {{GRT|2,842}}
|notes=Rigging: four-masted steel barque rigged with double topgallant sails over double topsails and no royal sails, as a very special feature the topgallant masts attached aft of the topmast
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'''''Garthpool''''' was a steel-hulled four-[masted](/source/Mast_(sailing)) [barque](/source/barque) rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the top-gallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century. She was said to have been the last commercial [square-rigged](/source/Square_rig) sailing ship under a British flag.
==Construction==
The vessel was built at the [Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company](/source/Caledon_Shipbuilding_%26_Engineering_Company) yard of W. B. Thompson in [Dundee](/source/Dundee), [Scotland](/source/Scotland), for Captain [Charles Barrie](/source/Charles_Barrie%2C_1st_Baron_Abertay), and [launched](/source/Ceremonial_ship_launching) on 3 December 1891.[{{cite web|url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/W._B._Thompson_and_Co|title=W. B. Thompson and Co.|publisher=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History|access-date=21 April 2020}}][{{cite book|title=The Lawhill Story|author=Richardson, John|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|date=2014|isbn=9781783066025}}][{{Cite web | url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?139830 | title=Wrecksite - Garthpool Barque - Bark 1891-1929 |publisher=The Wrecksite |access-date=21 April 2020}}] It was built specifically for the [jute trade](/source/jute_trade), but only made a few voyages carrying [jute](/source/jute) before the business became unprofitable, and shifted to other cargoes.
==Service==
Its first owner was the Den Line of Dundee. On 31 August 1899 the ''Juteopolis'', together with her sister ship, {{ship||Lawhill}}, was sold to the Lawhill Sailing Ship Co. Ltd. (F. E. Bliss, manager), London. In June 1900 the barque was transferred to the [Anglo-American Oil Company](/source/Anglo-American_Oil_Company). Between 1900 and 1911 ''Juteopolis'' operated in the Pacific under the [Anglo-American Oil Company](/source/Esso), carrying case oil. In 1911 both vessels were acquired (''Juteopolis'' for an estimated £6,500) by [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) shipowner George Windram and Co. and used for general cargoes.
In 1917, ownership switched to the Marine Navigation Company of Canada, owned by Sir William Garthwaite, and three years later the vessel was renamed ''Garthpool''. Its port of registry from 1924 was [Montreal](/source/Montreal) – still technically under a British flag.
The ship was mothballed for two years from 1921 after a slump in freight prices then resumed general cargo duties. Her final role was in the [grain trade](/source/grain_trade), plying between [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide), Australia, and [Kingston-upon-Hull](/source/Kingston-upon-Hull), UK.
The Royal Museums Greenwich notes:[{{Cite web|url=https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/13785.html|title=The barque 'Garthpool' - National Maritime Museum}}] "She was not fast, her passages often exceeding 120 days."
In mid 1929 ''Garthpool'' was photographed mid-Atlantic by William Frank Bramhill, a 16-year-old seaman making his first ocean-going trip, with ''Garthpool'' making its last complete journey.
The vessel docked at Hull then weeks later set out in ballast. On 11 November, ''Garthpool'' ran aground and was [wrecked](/source/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1929) at Boavista, [Cape Verde](/source/Cape_Verde). There were no casualties.[{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Garthpool ashore |date=14 November 1929 |page=20 |issue=45360 |column=E }}]
One notable crew member was the folk singer [Stan Hugill](/source/Stan_Hugill), who sailed on ''Garthpool''{{'}}s final trip.
==Legacy==
''Garthpool'' was painted in oils by marine artist Derek Gardner in 1967. The work is in the care of the British National Maritime Museum.