The four-masted barque Grenada under full sail

Built by Archibald Russell & Co. at Greenock in 1894, Grenada was a large and fast four-masted steel barque registered at 2,268 tons gross (2,106 net) and measuring 278½ feet in length with a 42 foot beam. Originally owned by P. Denniston & Co., she was sold to Lang & Fulton around 1900 and resold to Roberts, Owen & Co. in 1910. Still afloat when the Great War began in 1914, she survived the hazards of wartime trading until 22^nd November 1916 when she was sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel, off Beachy Head, whilst on passage to New York in ballast.