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Notes:
Andrew Weir (later the 1st Lord Inverforth) was one of the great merchant shipping personalities of the late nineteenth century and founded his Bank Line in 1885 by purchasing the twenty-four year old barque ‘Willowbank’. The new business prospered from the outset and, in 1889, Weir ordered a quartet of new vessels, the last of which to be completed was the four-masted barque ‘Comliebank’. Built on the Clyde by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow, she was registered in October 1890 at 2,283 tons gross (2,179 net) and measured 279 feet in length with a 42 foot beam. Like the majority of her sailing sisters, ‘Comliebank’ proved a highly successful vessel and turned in excellent profits for Weir until she was sold to Norwegian owners in 1913. Renamed ‘Asulf’ in 1916, she survived the Great War only to be abandoned in a sinking condition off Cape Hatteras, on the eastern seaboard of the United States, on 27th January 1919 when inbound for Philadelphia with a cargo of iron ore.