Bohemia (ship, 1881)

Bohemia

Ship data flag  United Kingdom German Empire Italy     other ship names Bengore Head Pompeii Pompei Ship type Passenger ship home port Hamburg Shipping company HAPAG Rob. M. Sloman Shipyard A. & J. Inglis , Glasgow Build number 176 Launch August 25, 1881 Commissioning October 30, 1881 Whereabouts Scrapped in La Spezia in 1905

Ship dimensions and crew length 106.83 m ( Lüa ) width 12.25 m measurement 3,410 GRT   crew 50

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 1,600 hp (1,177 kW) Top speed 12 kn (22 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1st class: 100 between decks: 1200

The Bohemia was a simple passenger ship that the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag) bought in 1881 and used as an emigrant ship for the crossing to the United States of America . In addition to 100 passengers in 1st class, 1,200 passengers could be transported in the tween deck for the emigrants.

history

On August 25, 1881, the ship was launched as Bengore Head in Glasgow at the A. & J. Inglis Ltd shipyard . The ship under construction for the Ulster Steamshipping Company was sold to HAPAG, which renamed it Bohemia , on September 30, 1881, while it was still being fitted out . The name Bohemia stands for the Latin name of Bohemia . The iron steamer had a chimney and two masts, on which auxiliary sails could be attached. The ship, measured at 3410 GRT, was 106.8 m long, had a compound engine of 1,600 HP and reached a service speed of 12 knots.

On October 30, 1881, Bohemia's maiden voyage began in Hamburg, on which it reached New York on November 16. The ship was mainly used on this route. In 1887, the accommodation of tween deck passengers on her and the near-sister ship Moravia was improved by breaking up the large dormitories and replacing them with smaller compartments for tour groups and families.

In March 1892, the Bohemia after New York also ran to Baltimore . In 1893 it was also used on the re-traveled route from Stettin via Helsingborg , Gothenburg and Christianssand to New York. Used for the first time on May 17, the ship made three more departures on this route in July, September and November of that year.

However, the ship was mainly used between Hamburg and New York in the so-called Union service, which Hapag and the shipping company Rob. M. Sloman operated. On April 2, 1897 her last round trip from Hamburg to New York started under the Hapag flag and from June 11, 1897 she was used between Hamburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

In January 1898 the Bohemia was sold to the Hamburg shipping company Rob. M. Sloman sold, which she renamed Pompeii and had three more tours between Hamburg and New York carried out.

Sale to Italy

In November 1899, the Sloman shipping company sold the Pompeii to Italy. The Lavarello shipping company in La Spezia changed the name to Pompei . After five more years of service, the former Bohemia was scrapped in La Spezia in 1905.

literature

• Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping, Volume I, The Pioneering Years from 1850 to 1890 , Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 18
• Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway. An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New , Jersey, Channel Islands (Brookside Publications), 2nd Edition, Volume 1, 1975, p. 393

Web links

• Bohemia in Norway-Heritage (Accessed January 31, 2013; English) 4 departures
• Bohemia in clydesite.co.uk (Retrieved January 31, 2013)

Footnotes

1. ^ Kludas, Vol. I, p. 152.
2. ↑ Departures on the Scandia-Line
3. ↑ Kludas, Vol. II, p. 13.
4. ^ Kludas, Vol. I, p. 205.
5. ^ Kludas, Vol. I, p. 96.