Built as a four-masted steel hulled ship by Harland & Wolf at Belfast as hull No 205 for account of T.J. Brocklebank at London.
11 February 1888 launched under the name HOLKAR.
Tonnage 3,073 gross, 2,960 ton net, dim. 100.34 x 13.76 x 8.09m.
Ship rigged.
30 April 1888 delivered to owners.
She was a sistership of the SINDIA depict on a stamp of the Comoro Islands in 1984.
The first years in trade used between the U.K. and Calcutta and one of the last sailing vessels built for Brocklebank Line, and one of the largest sailing vessels in the world when built.
Her maiden voyage she made under command of Captain William Ellery and he was succeeded by Captain Peterkin after the maiden voyage.
After a few years in the Calcutta trade she was forced out by the steamers, thereafter used in the grain trade.
Circa 1901 reduced to barque rigging (as seen on the stamp.)
1901 Sold to D&H Wätjen & Co., Bremen renamed in ADELAIDE.
14 August 1913 Sold to Rhederei Akt. Gesellschaft von 1896 at Hamburg and renamed ODESSA.
20 August 1914 taken by the British auxiliary cruiser HMS CARONIA in the North Atlantic, put again under British flag and registry under the name ADELAIDE.
April 1915 sold to A/S Souverain (A.Melling Jr.), Stavanger, Norway and renamed SOUVERAIN.
September 1916 sold to Tvedestrands rederi A/S (Jos. A. Henschen), Tvedestrand.
1917 Sold to Tvedestrands Rederi A/S (Christiansands Shipping Co. Ltd.), Kristiansand.
September1912 sold to Skibs A/S Otra (Lars Jørgensen), Kristiansand.
1923 Sold to Emil & Hjalmar Knudsen, Lillesand renamed in HIPPALOS.
1925 Broken up in the Netherlands.
Turks & Caicos Islands 2001 60c sg?, scott?
Source: The last Windjammers by Basil Lubbock. The Maritime History Virtual Archives, Lars Bruzelius.