Algeria (ship)
.jpg) The identical sister ship Abyssinia
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The Algeria was an ocean liner put into service in 1870 by the British shipping company Cunard Line , which was used in passenger, freight and mail traffic from Liverpool via Queenstown to New York . In 1882 the ship was sold to the Red Star Line and was in service under the name Pennland (I) until its decommissioning in 1903 .
The ship
After the success of Russia, which was put into service in 1867, the Cunard Line ordered five new iron express steamers for the weekly North Atlantic service. One of them, the 3,428 GRT steamship Algeria ( hull number 111), was built in Clydebank (Scotland) at the shipyard of J. & G. Thomson, the predecessor of John Brown & Company , and was launched on July 12, 1870. She and her sister ship , who joined J. &. G. Thomson built Abyssinia (hull number 110), were the first Cunard steamers, which not only carried cabin passengers but also tween deck passengers. In total, there was space for 200 first class passengers and 1,054 third class passengers.
The 110.09 meter long and 12.61 meter wide steamer had a chimney, three masts , a single screw and was equipped with compound steam engines that could accelerate the ship to up to 13 knots (24 km / h). On September 27, 1870, the Algeria left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York via Queenstown. On October 22, 1881, the last voyage of the ship began in service of the Cunard Line.
In 1882 the ship was sold to the Belgian-American shipping company Red Star Line , which renamed it Pennland and for whom it first sailed from Antwerp to New York on May 13, 1882 . In the course of the takeover, new compound steam engines from James Jack & Company from Liverpool were installed. As a result of modifications in 1888, the ship surveying increased from 3,428 GRT to 3,760 GRT. On 15 December 1894, the put Pennland from the last time the Red Star Line Antwerp to New York.
She was chartered to the American shipping company American Line , based in Philadelphia , for which she was used between May 18, 1895 and April 6, 1901 in the Philadelphia-Liverpool service. Then she steamed again from Antwerp to New York and from August 1901 from Antwerp to Philadelphia. From 1902 only third class passengers were carried. The last voyage of the Pennland on the Antwerp – New York route began on March 27, 1902 and the last on the Antwerp – Philadelphia route on September 23, 1903. The ship was then decommissioned and scrapped in Italy that same year.