Samoa (ship, 1886)
The Samoa was a British , later Norwegian, three-masted barque that was sunk by a German submarine during World War I.
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on December 1, 1886 with the hull number 141 on the shipyard Cartsdyke West of Russell & Co. in Greenock on the Clyde in Scotland for Iceland Line of Peter Denniston & Co. in Glasgow from the stack . The freighter with an iron hull was 65.4 m long and 10.7 m wide and measured with 1138 GRT and 1109 NRT ; a new measurement in 1892 only resulted in 1054 NRT.
fate
For the recently founded Island Line, the ship sailed from Glasgow to Honolulu in the then still independent Kingdom of Hawaii and to ports on the North American west coast.
In May 1909 the Samoa was sold to Rudolf Hansen in Kristiansand , Norway, who managed it through his A / S Samoa until August 1916. In August 1916 Jacobsen & Thon from Fredrikstad bought the ship and had it managed by Skips-A / S Samoa in Kristiansand.
On June 14, 1918, the Samoa , with a cargo of copper ore on the voyage from Walvis Bay in South Africa (now Namibia ) to Perth Amboy ( New Jersey , USA) under Captain PC Dahl, off the US coast off Virginia was about on the Position 37 ° 18 ' N , 72 ° 6' W by the German submarine U 151 ( Korvettenkapitän Heinrich von Nostitz and Jänckendorff) and sunk after partial takeover of the copper load by gunfire. The crew were given time to get into the boats and there were no deaths.
Footnotes
- ^ Honolulu Packet Lines with the New and Old World , In: Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1886. Thomas G. Thrum, Honolulu, November 1885, p. 47
- ↑ Peter Denniston (* 1847, † January 21, 1898) was a Hawaiian consul in Glasgow for a long time . ( Marine Engineer and Naval Architect , Volume 19, London, 1898, p. 436 )