Columbia (ship, 1902)
.jpg) The Columbia before the war
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The Columbia (II) was an ocean liner put into service in 1902 by the British shipping company Anchor Line , which was used in transatlantic passenger and mail traffic between Great Britain and New York . From 1914 she served under the designation HMS Columbella as an armed auxiliary cruiser (Armed Merchant Cruiser) in the First World War . The ship was sold in 1926, but quickly decommissioned due to unprofitability and scrapped in 1929.
Construction data
The 8292-ton, from steel -built steamship Columbia was at the shipyard D. & W. Henderson & Company in Scotland Glasgow built and ran there on 22 February 1902 by the stack. Godmother was Katherine Eliza Gordon, Lady Balfour of Burleigh, wife of the then Scotland Minister Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh . When it was launched in the Partick district of Glasgow , Queen Mary's lady-in-waiting Jean Hamilton Bruce (daughter of Lord and Lady Balfour), Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery at the University of Glasgow Sir Hector Cameron, Sir John Bell, Sir John Culbertson and Sir Samuel Chisholm, Lord Provost of Glasgow, present.
The passenger and mail ship was 121.92 meters long and 15.03 meters wide and had three masts with the rigging of a schooner , three chimneys and two propellers . The six-cylinder triple expansion steam engines made 1060 nhp and could accelerate the Columbia , the second ship of the Anchor Line with this name, to a speed of 16 knots. The passenger capacity was 345 passengers in first, 218 in second and 740 in third class. On the six decks there were one, two and three-bed cabins for first-class passengers, a dining room, a smoking room and a library.
Mission history
On May 17, 1902, the Columbia ran on her maiden voyage from Glasgow via Moville (Ireland) to New York . The ship stayed on this route until the outbreak of the First World War. In October 1914, the ship made its last civil voyage in the North Atlantic passenger traffic . From November 1914, the Columbia was used by the Admiralty as an auxiliary cruiser . To avoid confusion with the USS Columbia , it was renamed HMS Columbella . She patrolled the waters around Bear Island as part of the Northern Patrol until August 1917 and was then assigned to the Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy as an escort from September 1917 to November 1918 .
After the war it was transferred back to the Anchor Line and renamed Columbia again. She was the only ship in the Anchor Line's Glasgow-New York fleet that had survived the war. With new passenger accommodations for 72 passengers first, 430 passengers second and 378 passengers third class, the Columbia set off on August 20, 1919 for her first post-war voyage on the old route from Glasgow via Moville to New York. In 1921 there was a change from coal to oil combustion and in November 1922 there was a further change in the number of passengers (492 cabin class, 420 third class). On August 22, 1925, the Columbia began its last journey on its traditional route.
It was then placed on the Clyde until it was sold on March 5, 1926 to the Byron Steamship Company ( Byron Line ), a British division of the National Greek Line that opened in 1915. Under the new name Moreas , the steamer ran on September 1, 1926 on its first voyage on the route from Piraeus to New York. After only three trips (the last one began on January 15, 1927) it was already retired and launched in Greece until it was transferred to the National Greek Line in 1928. However, she did not set sail for this shipping company once. It was finally scrapped in Venice in July 1929 .