I am transferring here some information about this ship that I wrote in http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthr...t=53177&page=6
Antigone was a McDowall & Barbour ship. She was built as a passenger/cargo ship of 923 tons by Tod & McGregor of Meadowside in 1873. http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&M...burns_line.htm She was named Owl and belonged to J.& G. Burns. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Geo...s,_1st_Baronet Owl was 70 m long and 9.2 m wide. See also http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&M...or/Owl_168.htm
The Burns brothers, James & George, entered shipping as agents for one of the three concerns running the Glasgow - Liverpool route and based themselves in Greenock. Their agency interests extended to a proposed Belfast-Glasgow steamer service and by 1826 they decided to operate this themselves. The Liverpool route became controlled by the Burns brothers in 1829 and they became associated with David MacIver. Together they founded what later became the Cunard Line. They also entered the West Highlands trade in 1835, but in 1851 they sold these ships to David Hutchenson, along with the ships of the Castle Line, which they had purchased in 1848
Here are two ads from the Official Cunard Album and Guide.
Cunard.jpgOwl.jpgowl2.jpg
She transferred to McDowall & Barbour in 1901 and was named Antigone. See also http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuil...p.asp?id=14378
Previously, I had reported she was scrapped in 1929 based on Lloyd information, but this is not correct. It is known now that she was one of the Greek casualties of World War I. She was sunk on December 29, 1917 probably by a submarine.
Here is an ad for the Dekapentavgoustos 1905 (Skrip newspaper of August 12, 1905).
August 12 1905.jpg