The steel barque Juteopolis was built to the order of Captain Barrie by W.P. Thompson's in 1891. Registered at 2,842 tons, she was a very large ship and measured 310 feet in length, 45 feet in beam and 25 feet in draught. Originally intended for the Calcutta to Dundee jute trade, by the turn of the century she was carrying a variety of cargoes and was under the ownership of Anglo-American Oil. Sold by them just before the Great War, by 1918 she had been sold again and renamed Garthpool. Retaining this name until she stranded and became a total loss in 1929, the 1920s saw her on the Australian grain route where she eventually became the last square-rigger to sail under the British flag.