SS Ancona

SS Ancona, steamer, of Leith: Italia Line around 1911 (Capt. Edward Henderson)

The SS Ancona was a four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by Russell & Co, Greenock, at a cost of £ 26.000.
Dimensions 85,39×13,61×6,92 meters [280’2″×44’8″×22’9″] and tonnage 2852 GRT and 2570 NRT.
Fitted with water ballast tanks with a capacity of 1350 tons. Rigged in Jubilee fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top- and topgallant sails.
Sister ship to the Bermuda built in the same year. 1893 November Launched at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Greenock, for The Ship Ancona Co. (G.T. Soley & Co.), Liverpool. Captain T. Long. 1895 Sailed from Astoria to Queenstown in 185 days. 1906 Placed under the management of Lang & Fulton, Greenock.
1906 November Lost in the Bay of Biscay due to fire on voyage from Antwerpen to San Francisco.

Source: Lars.Bruzelius@udac.se The Maritime History Virtual Archives – Ships – Four-masted ships & barques

I think this is the ship of which Edward Henderson was the captain; I have a postcard addressed to “Capt. E. Henderson, S.S. “Ancona”, of Leith, c/- Messrs E. Pinto Bastotha, Lisbon, Portugal; the postcard is sent from El Ferrol. The photograph on the front of the postcard is of “six Scotch and the rest Spanish” on an excursion – apparently the writer’s fellow passengers. Unfortunately the signature is covered by the postage mark. I also have a set of postcards of El Ferrol with various ships docked. I think this photograph  is Capt. Henderson on the Ancona’s deck.