Cassandra (ship, 1906)
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The Cassandra was a 1906 commissioned passenger ship of the British shipping company Donaldson Line , which was used in passenger and mail traffic between Great Britain and Canada . It was the shipping company's first ship that was designed from the outset to carry passengers. Until then, the Donaldson Line had only carried freight.
The ship
The 7396 GRT steamship Cassandra was built at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Greenock, Scotland . The combined passenger and cargo steamer was 138.69 meters long and 16.15 meters wide. The Cassandra had a chimney , two masts and two propellers and was propelled by six-cylinder triple expansion steam engines that allowed a speed of 14 knots. The ship was designed to carry 250 passengers in the second class and 950 in the third class. The Cassandra was the first ship of the Donaldson Line, which until then had only transported cargo, that was equipped with passenger accommodation. This was a novelty for the shipping company, which, however, soon became the standard. The cost of building the ship was £ 107,000 (in monetary value at the time ).
The Glasgow registered ship was launched on June 27, 1906, was handed over to the Donaldson Line on August 31, 1906, and left Glasgow on September 22, 1906 on its maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal . Around 1908, the ship's tonnage increased to 8,135 GRT.
On Tuesday, April 9, 1912, the Cassandra , which was on the way from Saint John ( New Brunswick ) to Glasgow, gave an ice warning by radio for the coordinates 43.38 N 49.16 W 39.26 N 39.36 W. This was forwarded to the Caledonia of the British Anchor Line and the HAPAG steamer Bulgaria . It is not known whether the warning reached the RMS Titanic in the following days .
In June 1914, the Cassandra took about 700 passengers of the wrecked ocean liner California at Tory Island and brought them ashore. During the First World War , the Cassandra, like many other British passenger ships, served temporarily as a troop transport . In this role she took part in the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli .
The Cassandra began her last regular transatlantic voyage on November 20, 1924. In the following year she was renamed Carmia and from then on served only as a pure cargo ship. In December 1929 the ship was sold to the Hamburg shipowner Arnold Bernstein , who operated it under the name Drachenstein . In 1934 the ship was finally decommissioned and scrapped in Kiel .
Web links
- Framework data in The Ships List (lower third)
- [kingcrest.com/sinclair/cassandra.html-ssi Overview of the most important data and photo of the ship]
- Technical and historical data in the Clydebuilt Ships Database
- The Cassandra in GreatShips.net (with pictures)