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Ship – SS Servia

Ship Details

Name: SS Servia
Owner: Cunard Steamship Company

Further information at: en.wikipedia.org

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Notes & Comments

Info collected by Bruce Maliphant [##48059]

SurnameFirst NameRef IDFrom↓ Select ↓ToDepartureArrivalTransport
MALIPHANTCharles45007U.K. U.S.A.28th January 18937th February 1893SS Servia

Built by J. & G. Thomson, Ltd., Clydebank, Glasgow.
Three masts and two funnels.
Tonnage: 7,391.
Dimensions: 515′ x 52′.
Single-screw, 17 knots. Note: Attained a speed of 18 knots on her trials.
She was the first Cunarder to be built of steel.
Her main dining saloon measured 74 feet by 49 feet wide, with a height of 8 feet, and could seat 350 passengers.
She was broken up by shipbreakers in 1901.