Planes, Trains & Automobiles (and Ships!)
Ship – SS Servia
Notes & Comments
Info collected by Bruce Maliphant [##48059]
JOURNEYS
Surname | First Name | Ref ID | From | ↓ Select ↓ | To | Departure | Arrival | Transport |
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MALIPHANT | Charles | 45007 | U.K. | ![]() ![]() | U.S.A. | 28th January 1893 | 7th February 1893 | SS Servia |
SPECIFICATIONS
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.