Glenlee

Launched in 1896 at Anderson Rodgers' yard in Port Glasgow as a barque-rigged cargo ship and delivered to Archibald Sterling & Co. of Glasgow as Glenlee.

In 1898 the Islamount Sailing Ship Co. of Dundee bought her and renamed her Islamount; in those years she made four circumnavigations and fifteen passages round Cape Horn. In 1905 she was sold to the Flint Castle Shipping Co. of Liverpool, and in 1918 J. Stewart & Co. of London operated her for the Shipping Controller.

In 1919 the Societa Italiana di Navigazione Stella d'Italia of Milan bought her, modernised her, renamed her Clarastella, registered her at Genoa and fitted two auxiliary diesels. In 1922 the Spanish Navy acquired her as a sail training ship, rebuilt her at Monfalcone near Trieste and renamed her Galatea; from 1927 she trained non-commissioned officers and ran special exercises. In 1946 she lost almost her entire rigging in a severe storm but managed to make Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Probably in 1969 she was laid up at El Ferrol and used as a stationary training ship; in 1981 her rigging was removed and she was towed to Seville to become a museum ship. The project failed and, left without maintenance or security, she rotted and sank in the harbour.

In 1992 the Clyde Maritime Trust bought her at auction to convert her into a museum ship in Glasgow and restored the name Glenlee. She was towed from Seville to Greenock in 1993 and completely restored to her original appearance between 1993 and 1999, including her rigging and a figurehead. Since 1994 she has been berthed at Yorkhill Quay in Glasgow.