Category:Brilliant (ship, 1901)

English: Brilliant was a four-masted steel-hulled barque built in 1901 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow for Anglo-American Oil Co., London. Dimensions 107,40×14,95×8,58 meters [352'5"×49'1"×28'2"]. Tonnage 3,765 GRT and 3,609 NRT. Rigged with royals over double top and top-gallant sails. Together with her sister ship Daylight, the largest four-masted barque ever built. 1914 sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, and renamed Perkeo. Captured in 1914 by a British cruiser on voyage New York to Hamburg as a war prize. Renamed Bell. Sold in 1915 to A/S Bell (Alf Monsen), Tönsberg, Norway. Captured and sunk in 1916 by the U-boat U-44 near Ushant. The entire crew reached Liverpool after having been picked up by the steamship City of Stockholm.^[1][2]