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S/S ARCTURUS |
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Passenger steamer, one deck & spar deck |
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Passengers |
I: 67 |
II: 72 |
III: - |
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Ice class |
I A |
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Tonnages |
2,067 GRT |
1,117 NRT |
1,217 tdw |
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Length over all |
88.95 m - 291' 0" |
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Breadth |
11.57 m - 37' 9½" |
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Draught |
6.35 m - 20' 0" |
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Engine |
Triple steam engine 3 cy. by the shipbuilders. |
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Horse powers |
3,250 IHP |
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Speed |
13.5 knots |
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14.1.1899 |
Completed by Gourlay Bros. & Co., Dundee, as S/S Arcturus for Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, Helsinki. Sailed on Finland - Copenhagen - Hull line. |
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1914 |
While homeward bound from Copenhagen at the outbreak of war put into Stockholm, where laid up for the war time. |
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1918 |
Brought during the Civil war assisted by the icebreaker Sampo 940 light-infantrymen of the 27th Prussian Jaeger Battalion in heavy ice conditions from Libau to Vaasa, where arrived on Feb. 25. Continued after the war in the service to Hull. |
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1940 |
Damaged on Jan. 13 in a Soviet air raid at Turku. After completed repairs operated due to war traffic restrictions on Turku - Stockholm route carrying children to Sweden. |
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5.1949 |
Transferred to Helsinki - Antwerp service. |
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22.10.1956 |
Laid up in Helsinki. |
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27.4.1957 |
Sold to Nordisches Erzkontor G.m.b.H., Lübeck, for demolition, but resold to N. V. Holland and delivered on May 7 at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, where broken up by Holland Scheepswerf en Machinehandel. |
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Source: The Ships of Our First Century : The Effoa Fleet 1883-1983. Ed. by Matti Pietikäinen & Bengt Sjöström. Keuruu 1983, 231 p. ISBN 951-99438-5-4. |
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