Lawhill

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History
Name	Lawhill
Ordered	1891
Laid down	January 1892
Launched	24 August 1892
Captured	by South Africa on August 21, 1941
Fate	Broken up 1959
General characteristics
Displacement	6.400 ts
Length	Total: 382 ft (116 m) Hull: 347 ft (106 m) On deck: 334 feet (102 m) Bp: 317.4 feet (96.7 m)
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draught	24.4 ft (7.4 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Sail plan	27 (30) sails - 15 square sails, 1 spanker sail and 1 spanker topsail, 6 (9) stay sails and 4 foresails Area: 43,060 square feet (4,000 m2)
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement	25–30
Notes	Rigging: four-masted steel barque rigged with double topgallant sails over double topsails and no royal sails, as a very special feature the topgallant masts attached aft of the topmast

Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the top-gallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century. Although her career was not especially remarkable, save perhaps for being consistently profitable as a cargo carrier, in the 1930s Richard Cookson went on board and extensively documented Lawhill's internals and construction, which was later published in the Anatomy of the Ship series.