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S/S URANIA |
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Passenger steamer, two decks |
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Passengers |
I: 102 |
II: 48 |
III: 450 |
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Ice class |
- |
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Tonnages |
1,936 GRT |
1,106 NRT |
1,000 tdw |
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Length over all |
85.28 m |
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Breadth |
11.19 m |
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Draught |
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Engine |
Triple steam engine 3 cy. by N. E. Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., Newcastle. |
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Horse powers |
3,600 IHP |
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Speed |
15 knots |
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1897 |
Completed by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co., Sunderland as S/S Russie for Societé Generale des Transports Maritimes à Vapeur, Marseille. |
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1902 |
Went aground on Jan. 8 in the mouth of Rhone. Refloated and repaired. |
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26.5.1913 |
Acquired by Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, Helsinki, and renamed S/S Urania. Arrived on July 17 in Hull to be rebuilt by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. |
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5.12.1913 |
Completed and put into Finland - Copenhagen - Hull service. |
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7.1914 |
Lying in Hull, when WW I broke out. Laid up there. |
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7.4.1915 |
Chartered by the Russian Admiralty. |
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12.7.1915 |
Struck a mine off Sozonovets Lighthouse 12 miles from Cape Gorodetsk on the coast of Kola Peninsula while on passage from Liverpool to Arkhangelsk with general cargo, and sank in 57 seconds. However, all hands saved. |
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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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