A very tall ship

Buzzed down to the Glasgow Riverside Museum earlier this evening to grab some shots of the Glenlee - what a vessel!

The Glenlee is a metal-hulled sailing ship which was used on long haul routes as a bulk carrier. She was one of a group of 10 steel sailing vessels built for the Glasgow shipping firm of Archibald Sterling & Co. in Port Glasgow at the yard of Anderson Rodger & Company.

She was launched in 1896. She circumnavigated the world four times in her merchanting career and went fifteen times round Cape Horn.