Suevia (ship)
| Suevia | |
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 The Suevia |
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| Technical data (overview) | |
| Ship type: | Passenger steamer |
| Purpose: | Transatlantic scheduled services |
| Ship surveying : | 3,609 GRT |
| Length (LüA): | 109.80 m |
| Width (BüA): | 12.50 m |
| Speed: | 13 knots |
| Crew : | 115 |
| Shipyard : | Caird & Co. , Greenock |
| Launching ( ship christening ): | June 1, 1874 |
| Maiden voyage : | October 21, 1874 Hamburg - New York |
| Modification: | 1884 in the Reiherstieg shipyard |
| Fate: | Stranded and scrapped in 1898 |
The Suevia was the last ship of the Hammonia class to be built and was built in 1874 for the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) in Scotland. At the time, she was the largest and fastest HAPAG ship and was mainly used on the Hamburg - New York route for 20 years . As a result, it played a role in the emigration of Germans to the United States of America.
The Suevia offered 100 first class passengers, 70 second class and 600 third class (tween deck) space. The two-masted ship reached a speed of 13 knots. In 1884 the Reiherstieg shipyard received new steam boilers. It began its last journey in the service of HAPAG on October 27, 1894; In 1896 it was sold to Schiaffino, Nyer & Siges in Algeria and was named Quatre Amis . In 1898 it ran aground in the Scheldt near Antwerp , was towed to Marseille and scrapped there.
collision
On April 13, 1889, the Suevia collided in thick fog off Nantucket with the American pilot schooner Commodore Bateman , which then sank. Two people lost their lives in the process. The Commodore Bateman had only started service in 1888.
Web links
literature
- Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, The ships of the Hamburg-America Line, vol. 1: 1847-1906 , Herford (Koehler) 1979, p. 30
- Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway. An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New , 2nd Edition, Jersey, Channel Islands (Brookside Publications), Volume 1, 1975, p. 391