Flavia (ship)
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The Flavia was a steamship put into service in 1902 , which initially served as a cargo ship and later also as a passenger ship and until its sinking in 1918 had several names and owners, most recently the British Cunard Line from 1916 .
history
The 9,291 GRT large steamer was on the shipyard built Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in the northern English town of Jarrow and ran on August 29, 1901 as the British Empire (II) from the stack. The ship, 143.26 meters long and 17.31 meters wide, had a chimney, four masts and two propellers . It could reach a speed of up to 13 knots . Their passenger capacity was 40 passengers in the first, 50 in the second and 2,200 in the third class.
The British Empire was for those in Liverpool seated British Shipowners Company built and wrong for the shipping company Phoenix Line as a freighter between Antwerp and New York . She was then sold to the Italian shipping company Navigazione Generale Italiana and converted into a passenger ship. As Campania she operated the route Genoa - Naples - Palermo - New York, to which she first set off on March 7, 1907. On May 17, 1909, she left for her last trip on this route.
In 1910 the Campania was chartered to the British company Northwest Transport and used on the route Hamburg - Rotterdam - Halifax (Nova Scotia) - New York, on which it began its service on February 16, 1910. After only two Atlantic crossings for Northwest Transport, the ship was sold to Canadian Northern Steamships Ltd., better known as Royal Line ', a shipping subsidiary of the Canadian Northern Railway .
The Royal Line handed the Campania over to its Uranium Steamship Company, which had just been founded, for which it made three trips on the Rotterdam – Halifax – New York route between May and August 1910. After the third voyage, the ship was renamed Campanello and remained in service on the previous route until July 1914. From October 1914, the Campanello drove from Avonmouth , a small town near Bristol , to Québec and Montreal . In 1916 the ship was sold to the Cunard Line and renamed Flavia .
On August 24, 1918, the Flavia was torpedoed by the German submarine U 107 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Kurt Siewert 30 nautical miles northwest of Tory Island off the coast of the Northern Irish county Donegal on the way back from Montreal to Avonmouth and sank. A person was killed.