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S/S TITANIA |
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Passenger steamer, one deck & spar deck |
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Passengers |
I: 86 |
II: 68 |
III: 585 |
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Ice class |
1 |
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Tonnages |
3,495 GRT |
1,997 NRT |
1,940 tdw |
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Length over all |
100.60 m |
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Breadth |
13.65 m |
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Draught |
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Engine |
Triple steam engine 3 cy. by the shipbuilders. |
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Horse powers |
4,500 IHP |
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Speed |
14.5 knots |
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31.8.1908 |
Completed by Gourlay Bros. & Co., Dundee, as S/S Titania for Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, Helsinki. Sailed on Helsinki/Hanko - Copenhagen - Hull line. |
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14.3.1916 |
Requisitioned by the British Admiralty. Converted to an armed accomodation vessel and renamed HMS Tithonus. |
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1918 |
When escorting as an aux. cruiser a convoy for Norway torpedoed by the German UB 72 and sank on March 28 about 50 miles east of Aberdeen. Four British men lost their lives. |
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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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