City of New York (ship, 1888)
 SS City of New York
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The City of New York was an iron ship of the line of the Inman Line (Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Company) put into service in 1888 .
The ship
The ship was built in 1888 in the J. & G. Thomson shipyard , Glasgow (later: John Brown and Company , 1899) as a passenger ship for service on the North Atlantic . The launch took place on March 15, 1888. The ship was 170.7 meters long and 19 meters wide. The City of New York was the largest ship in the world after the Great Eastern was scrapped . With two ship propellers and a powerful machine from Thomson, she was able to reach a speed of 20 knots.
Special
The ships of the traditional shipping company could be recognized by the fact that all names began with the prefix "City of ...". The City of New York was made of iron and had no auxiliary sails, but they had a clipper stem that made them look like a sailing ship .
Passenger capacity and passengers
The City of New York had space for 1740 passengers . From September 20, 1888 to September 29, 1888, Friedrich Engels , Carl Schorlemmer , Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx traveled with this ship from New York to England.
history
The use of the City of New York was a complete success for the shipping company ; in 1892 it exceeded the transatlantic record on the voyage from America to Europe at a speed of 20.11 knots. When the Inman Line merged into the American American Line in 1893 , the "City of" was deleted from all ship names, so that from 1893 the City of New York was only called New York . It has been rebuilt. Their transport capacity decreased to 1265 seats, but the emigrant class improved.
During the Spanish-American War she was named Harvard and served as an auxiliary cruiser . From 1901 to 1903 it was modernized and only kept two chimneys. When the RMS Titanic set sail for her maiden voyage to America on April 10, 1912, there was almost a collision with the New York moored at the dock . By the suction of the propellers of the Titanic , the rear ropes and tore the rear of the New York came Titanic dangerously close. Only through the quick action of Captain Edward J. Smith and the tug Vulcan , which pulled the New York away, could a collision be prevented. The New York was towed away and the Titanic continued its voyage an hour late. At that time, the German-American businessman Isidor Straus was on the Titanic's maiden voyage. This was also a passenger during the maiden voyage of the City of New York in 1888.
During the First World War it was requisitioned by the American Navy and transported American troops to Europe under the name Plattsburg . After the end of the war and her return to the American Line, she went again under the name New York . From 1921 she drove the New York - Danzig line for the Polish Navigation Company. In 1923 it was sold and later scrapped.
literature
- J. Coplák: passenger ships. Verlag Dausien-Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-7684-0570-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Grace's Guide. British Industrial History. City of New York
- ^ JH Johnson, Son & Ellis to Engels. November 7, 1889; Engels to JH Johnson, Son & Ellis. November 15, 1889; JH Johnson, Son & Ellis to Engels. November 16, 1889- ( Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Section III. Volume 30. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 47, 59 and 65.
- ↑ Engels to Hermann Engels. September 27, 1888 ( Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 37, p. 100 f.)
- ↑ J. Coplák: passenger ships. Verlag Dausien-Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-7684-0570-2 , p. 54