Batavia (ship, 1870)
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The Batavia was an ocean liner put into service in 1870 by the British shipping company Cunard Line , which was used in passenger and mail traffic from Liverpool via Queenstown to New York . The ship was sold in 1884, chartered to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1887 , fell into Japanese hands in 1905 and was scrapped in 1924.
history
The 2,553 GRT iron steamship Batavia was built at the William Denny and Brothers shipyard in the Scottish port city of Dumbarton and was 99.79 meters long and 11.98 meters wide. The Batavia had a clipper bow , a chimney , two masts with full rigging , a single propeller and could reach a speed of 12 knots (22.2 km / h). There was space on board for 150 first and 800 third class passengers .
The Batavia was one of five new, iron- built screw express steamers commissioned by the Cunard Line after the Russia , which was commissioned in 1867, had proven to be a success for the shipping company. The Russia was Cunard's first passenger steamer that was no longer powered by a paddle wheel , but by a screw. This method was then used on Cunard's later ships. The Batavia was the first ship of the Cunard Line to be equipped with compound steam engines. These developed 1,767 hp .
The Batavia ran on February 1, 1870 William Denny and Brothers from the stack and put their in Liverpool on May 10, 1870 maiden voyage to New York via Queenstown from. In 1880 the steamer took a test drive to Bombay . This proved successful, but Cunard did not repeat the endeavor. During the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882, the Batavia served as a troop transport .
On February 6, 1884, the ship cast off on its last voyage from Liverpool via Queenstown to Boston . It was then sold together with the Parthia to the John Elder & Company shipyard in order to finance the construction of Cunard's new blue ribbon record breakers Umbria and Etruria . Equipped with new triple expansion steam engines, the Batavia was part of the Canadian Pacific Railway's fleet from 1887 to 1891 .
In 1892 the ship went to the Northern Pacific Line, for which it was used under the name Tacoma in the Pacific Service. In 1898 the steamer was handed over to the North American Mail Line and returned to the Northern Pacific Line in 1901. In 1904 the Batavia was transferred to North Western Commercial, but was confiscated by the Japanese on March 15, 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War . From then on, the ship sailed under the Japanese flag under the name Shikotan Maru . On October 3, 1924 , it ran aground near Shaiweishan. After 1,700 tons of coal had been thrown overboard, the ship was lifted and towed to Shanghai , where it was scrapped.
literature
- Robert D. Ballard , Ken Marschall : Lost Liners - From the Titanic to Andrea Doria - the glory and decline of the great luxury liners . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co., Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12905-9 (English: Lost Liners: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria. The ocean floor reveals its greatest lost ships. Translated by Helmut Gerstberger).
Web links
- Short description of the ship in The Ships List
- The Batavia in the Clydebuilt Ships Database
- Website with data on Cunard ships ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )