RMS Pannonia
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The RMS Pannonia was put into operation in 1903 Transatlantic - passenger steamer of the British shipping company Cunard Line , which was used in passenger and cargo services from the UK to New York and into the Mediterranean. In 1922 the Pannonia was scrapped in Hamburg .
The ship
The keel of the 9,851 GRT steamship RMS Pannonia was laid on October 22, 1901 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank , Scotland . The Pannonia was originally built for the shipping company Furness, Withy & Co. founded by Christopher and Thomas Furness . However, it was bought by Cunard while it was being built. The ship was 148.28 meters long and 18.07 meters wide and had a side height of 10.97 meters. The Pannonia was equipped with four masts , a chimney and a double propeller . Their triple expansion steam engines made 811 nominal horsepower (nhp) and guaranteed a speed of 14.93 knots. It was named after Pannonia , a province of the Roman Empire . On board there was space for 40 passengers in the first class and 800 passengers in the third class.
period of service
The RMS Pannonia was launched on September 5, 1902 and left Trieste on May 28, 1903 on her maiden voyage via Fiume and Palermo to New York . Until July 16, 1914, she stayed on the route Trieste-Fiume- Patras - Messina- Palermo- Naples -New York. On October 3, 1914, she was chartered to the Anchor Line , whose corporate capital had been acquired by Cunard in 1911. From now on she completed four crossings from Glasgow via Queenstown to New York.
On November 14, 1913, under the command of Captain Robert Capper , the Pannonia took the passengers and crew of the Balmes , a 3,000 GRT passenger ship of the Spanish shipping company Pinillos Izquierdo y Compañía, on board about 600 nautical miles east of Bermuda , which was in flames the day before had risen. The Balmes was on October 26, under the command of Captain Juan Ruiz in Galveston leaked, had New Orleans on October 31 and Havana started on Nov. 6 and had besides passengers a cargo of cotton , sugar and rum on board. The chief officer Harry McConkey went with the ship's doctor Doherty and the purser Williams in a lifeboat to the Balmes , where he lost consciousness due to the thick smoke . On November 19, 1913, the Pannonia arrived with the castaways in New York. 16 women and 14 children were among the 103 passengers.
On March 12, 1915, the Pannonia ran for its first crossing from Saint-Nazaire to New York and on December 26, 1916 for the first voyage from London to New York. The eleventh and last voyage from London to New York took place on August 19, 1917, after which it set sail again from Liverpool to New York on October 8, 1918. On April 2, 1918 she drove for the last time from Liverpool to New York and on March 29, 1919 for the last time from London to New York.
From May 18, 1919, the Pannonia was used on the Mediterranean route when it first set out in Piraeus for Marseille and New York. From September 17, 1921 she ran again on the route Trieste-Patras-Messina-Naples-Palermo- Valencia -New York. The Pannonia then returned to the Liverpool – New York route until it made its last trip from New York via Plymouth and Cherbourg to Hamburg on April 18, 1922 . The ship was finally scrapped in Hamburg.
Web links
- The RMS Pannonia (photos and information)
- Extract from the Pannonia timetable
- The Pannonia in the Clydebuilt Ships Database (with photo)
- Report of the Balmes disaster in the November 16, 1913 issue of the New York Times
- Report of the rescue of the Balmes passengers in New York in the November 20, 1913 issue of the New York Times