The huge steel full-rigger Dalgonar, 2,665 tons, was built in 1891 for Gracie, Beazley & Co. at a cost of (23, 361. After an exciting career which included a serious fire whilst on passage from Liverpool to Sydney in 1896, she became disabled in a hurricane off Chile in October 1913 and was abandoned by her crew who were picked up by the French barque Loire. Refusing to sink however, Dalgonar drifted some 5,000 miles over the next few months and eventually grounded on Mopihaa in the Society Islands in the spring of 1914.