Friesland (ship, 1889)
_pg094_RED_STAR_LINE_STEAMSHIP_FRIESLAND.jpg) The Friesland in front of New York (around 1893)
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The Friesland was a passenger ship put into service in 1889 by the Belgian-American shipping company Red Star Line , which was used in passenger traffic on the Antwerp - New York route. The ship was chartered to the American Line in 1903, decommissioned in 1911 and scrapped in 1912.
The ship
The 7116 GRT steamship Friesland was built at the J. & G. Thomson shipyard, the predecessor of John Brown & Company in Glasgow , and was launched on August 15, 1889 for the Red Star Line. Due to the double bottom , the watertight bulkheads , the number of lifeboats and the fact that the Friesland could hold ballast of up to 1000 tons of water, she was considered one of the safest ships of her time.
The steel ship, 133.19 meters long and 15.60 meters wide , had a chimney, four masts, the stern of a clipper , a single screw and could reach a speed of 15 knots (27.8 km / h). The three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine developed 7,000 PSi . The passenger capacities were 226 passengers in the first, 102 in the second and 600 in the third class.
On December 7, 1889, the Friesland set sail under the command of Captain William G. Randle on her maiden voyage from Antwerp to New York, where she arrived on December 21. On January 10, 1903, she left for the last trip on this route. Then the steamer was chartered to the American Line ( American Steamship Company based in Philadelphia ), which they used from March 26, 1903 with space for 300 passengers in the second and 600 in the third class on the Liverpool – Philadelphia route. The Friesland remained in this service until May 1911. In the same year she was sold to Italian owners and renamed La Plata . Two of its masts were removed before it was scrapped in 1912.
