Ludgate Hill (ship)

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Ship data
Ship type Passenger ship
Owner Allan Line
Launch 1881
takeover 1897
Whereabouts scrapped
Ship dimensions and crew
length
128.1 m ( Lüa )
width 14.3 m
Machine system
propeller 2

The Ludgate Hill was an English liner of the Twin Screw Line .

history

The Ludgate Hill was built in 1881 for the Twin Screw Line and was one of the first twin screw ships of the line on the North Atlantic route . In 1897 she bought the English Allan Line and used it in the South America service.

In 1914 she was sunk as a blockade ship during an attack on the port of Dover . After the war, the cremated remains were scrapped.

Individual proof

  1. Gibbons, Tony: The World of Ships , Bassermann Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3809421863