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SS Belgic (1885)

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119: 146: 51: 129: 98: 451: 30: 387:, also built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, the steam for which was supplied from three coal-fired elliptical boilers, working at a pressure of 90 psi. In the event of one engine failing it could be disconnected from the propeller shaft enabling the vessel to continue at reduced power. She carried eight 413:. As a positioning move her maiden voyage was utilised to take 590 emigrants to Australia, leaving London on 30 July, under the command of Captain William Henry Walker, and arriving in 482:
was requisitioned as a transport for Boer War service. She was returned to her owners in 1902 but the decision was taken not to refurbish her and she was scrapped by Garston at
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The comfort of passengers on board was enhanced by the provision of electric light and a refrigerated compartment enabling fresh meat to be served on the voyage.
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was a steel-hulled ship divided by watertight bulkheads into 8 separate compartments. In addition to her engines she had four masts with the first pair being
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Harbour. No damage was caused to either ship. A year later, on 9 May 1895, she went aground in Sateyama Bay,
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was launched on 3 January 1885 and completed on 7 July the same year. On completion she was chartered to the
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In 1899 she was sold to the Atlantic Transport Line who renamed her
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on 12 September. She then took up her intended services connecting
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Daily Alta California, San Francisco, 22 November 1885
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but was refloated. In 1898 she returned to Britain.
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In December 1900 1463: 1451:http://www.red-duster.co.uk/WSTAR5.htm 226:Scrapped in Garston, Liverpool in 1903 1471:Passenger ships of the United Kingdom 552: 496: 258:420 ft 4 in (128.12 m) 47: 368:transport she was scrapped in 1903. 331:13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) 218:United Kingdom Official Number 91208 360:in 1899 she was transferred to the 266:45 ft 5 in (13.84 m) 13: 274:29 ft 6 in (8.99 m) 14: 1507: 1444: 432:On 26 May 1894 she was rammed by 1496:Ships built by Harland and Wolff 409:for service in the Far East and 144: 127: 117: 96: 49: 28: 371: 508: 1: 1433:List of White Star Line ships 527:de Kerbrech, Richard (2009). 489: 1486:Ships of the White Star Line 529:Ships of the White Star Line 7: 391:as well as two life rafts. 10: 1512: 397: 344:was a steam ship built by 321:Square rigged on two masts 15: 1429: 1384: 629: 602: 587: 531:. 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Index

SS Belgic

White Star Line

Atlantic Transport Line

Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company

United Kingdom
Liverpool
Harland and Wolff
GRT
Compound steam engines
indicated horsepower
propeller
Harland and Wolff
White Star Line
Pacific
Atlantic Transport Line
North Atlantic
Boer War
square rigged
NHP
lifeboats
Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company
Pacific
Sydney
Yokohama
San Francisco
Hong Kong

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