"SS Agamemnon (1865) SS ""Agamemnon"" was one of the first successful long-distance merchant steamships. She was built in 1865 to trade between Britain and China, and competed with tea clippers before and after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. She brought together three improvements in steamship design: higher boiler pressure, an efficient and compact compound steam engine, and a hull form with modest power requirements. Before ""Agamemnon"", steamships were not a practical commercial option for trade between Britain and the Far East. The amount of coal that they needed to carry left little space for cargo. ""Agamemnon"" could"
"HMVS Victoria (1855) HMVS ""Victoria"" (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship; also referred to with the prefix HMCSS-Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop) was a 580-ton combined steam/sail sloop-of-war built in England in the 1850s for the colony of Victoria, Australia. She was the second warship to be built for an Australian colonial navy, the first British-built ship given to a colony of the British Empire, and the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas when she supported New Zealand colonists during the First Taranaki War. ""Victoria"" was the first warship to be built in England for one of the British colonies. She"
"operations in the west. She was built entirely of wood by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, owned by John F. Steffan. She was built for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. She was launched at Portland, Oregon in 1888. She was propelled by two non-condensing steam engines, with 32"" cylinders, each with an eight-foot stroke, and generating (together or singly is not certain) 1,700 horsepower. Her single boiler and firebox were built in 1887 by the Pusey & Jones Company, of Wilmington, Delaware. The boiler was long with a diameter of . Her gross tonnage was 659 and her"
"SS Great Yarmouth (1866) SS ""Great Yarmouth"" was a freight vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1866. The ship was built by the Thames Graving Dock Company in London in 1866. She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp cargo service. She was the first screw steamer in the Great Eastern Railway Company fleet. The hold was built with a double lining, which could hold 100 tons of water, and had a powerful steam pump independent of the main engines connected to clear it. On each side were bunkers capable of storing 100 tons of coal. On 28"
"USS Patricia (1899) USS ""Patricia"" was a troop transport of the United States Navy immediately after World War I. She was originally the German steamship SS ""Patricia"", a 14,446 gross ton passenger liner built in 1899 by Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan, Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg-America Packet Steamship Company. Following the World War I Armistice she was temporarily allocated to the United States on 26 March 1919 for use by the U.S. Army to bring service personnel home from the former European war zone. She was placed in commission on 28 March 1919 as USS ""Patricia"" (with no identification number assigned), at"
"and 406 tons built in Glasgow in 1875, she was wrecked on Polmaise reef while on a voyage to Rockhampton from Sydney via Brisbane and Maryborough, carrying general cargo of grain/produce no lives were lost. The wreck was later purchased for 140 pounds and hopes were high that she could be refloated until examination showed her to be breaking up underwater She lies in shallow water about 100metres from the reef and her stern post comes very close to the surface, a hazard to boats trying to find the wreck. The wreck is mostly flattened but her boilers a compound"
"smaller and engaged in general purpose work, such as the transport of passengers, construction supplies, and groceries. They also did towing work on occasion. Vessels on the route included ""E.M.Gill"" (built 1895, , 21 gross tons (GT)) ""Maggie Yarro"" (built 1891 , 19 GT), ""Orion"", ""Capitol"" (steam scow, built 1878 , 54 GT), ""Clara"", the sternwheeler ""Old Settler"" (built 1878 ), ""Arrow"" (built 1883, ), ""Seaside"", (built 1885, , 31 GT), ""White Cap"", and ""Colby"" (built 1902, ). The somewhat larger sternwheeler ""Tyconda"" (built 1895 , 186 GT), also ran up to Vaughn, where the shallow draft of the sternwheeler"
"Wilson Line. USS Patricia (1899) USS ""Patricia"" was a troop transport of the United States Navy immediately after World War I. She was originally the German steamship SS ""Patricia"", a 14,446 gross ton passenger liner built in 1899 by Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan, Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg-America Packet Steamship Company. Following the World War I Armistice she was temporarily allocated to the United States on 26 March 1919 for use by the U.S. Army to bring service personnel home from the former European war zone. She was placed in commission on 28 March 1919 as USS ""Patricia"" (with no identification number"
"her for a listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The ""Ohio"" (Official number 19438) was an early wooden bulk carrier. She was built in 1875 by Ohio resident John F. Squires of Huron, Ohio. She was launched in April of 1875. Her hull was long, her beam was wide and her cargo hold was deep. She had a gross register tonnage of 1101.81 tons and a net register tonnage of 850.82 tons. She was powered by a low pressure condensing engine which was fueled by a single coal-burning Scotch marine boiler. She was used to haul bulk cargoes"
"on 16 January 1919. She was 300 feet overall (312 ft between the perpendiculars) in length with a beam of 29.5 feet. Her mean draught was 9 feet, and would reach 11.25 feet under full load. She had a displacement of 1,140 tons standard and up to 1,550 full load. She was propelled by three White-Foster type water tube boilers powering Curtis-Brown geared steam turbines developing 27,000 SHP driving two screws for a maximum designed speed of 34 knots. She was oil-fired and had a bunkerage of 320 to 370 tons. This gave a range of between 3500 nautical miles"
"She was the last wooden-hulled battleship to be built at Portsmouth. She was commissioned in January 1867 as flagship on the North America station; she arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, after steaming through a major North Atlantic gale, with only one day's coal supply in her bunkers. She remained on this station for six years, moving between Nova Scotia and the West Indies, broken only by a short relief by for docking. She returned to pay off in January 1874, and was in Portland reserve until the following year. An engineering survey discovered that her boilers were so corroded that"
"on the evening of 11 January 1919. Loading a cargo of 5,577 tons of steel and cotton, she left Charleston on 15 February 1919 bound for France. Upon arrival at Le Havre, France, on 6 March 1919, however, she discovered that congestion of the port facilities there would have made it impossible to be assigned a berth for almost two weeks. Ordered to proceed instead to Cherbourg, France, she got underway on the afternoon of 8 March 1919, and reached Cherbourg early on the morning of 9 March 1919. There, she unloaded her cargo before returning to Le Havre on"
"Margaret Olwill Margaret Olwill was a shipping vessel originally constructed in 1887 to transport goods on Lake Erie. It was rebuilt twice to new specifications. It was shipwrecked in 1899 in an unexpected June storm with the loss of at least eight lives. ""Margaret Olwill"" was a steam-powered bulk carrier steam barge built of wood. It was 175.6 feet in length and had a breadth of 34 feet. The US registry number was US 91953. It was equipped with a steeple compound engine built by the Cuyahoga Iron Works of Cleveland. It had a gross registered tonnage of 554 tons."
"SS Indiana (1873) SS ""Indiana"" was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The third of a series of four ""Pennsylvania""-class vessels, ""Indiana"" and her three sister ships – ""Pennsylvania"", ""Ohio"" and ""Illinois"" – were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and among the first to be fitted with compound steam engines. They were also the first ships to challenge British dominance of the transatlantic trade since the American Civil War. Though soon outclassed by newer vessels, ""Indiana"" was to enjoy a substantial 36-year career,"
"of . She displaced and had a draft of . Her hull was steel-built, with wood and copper sheathing, and was equipped with a ram bow. The ship mounted two masts, both with fighting tops. She had a crew of 480 officers and enlisted men. She was powered by a pair of horizontal expansion engines that were supplied with steam by five cylindrical boilers. The boilers were trunked into two funnels on the centerline. Her propulsion system was rated at for a top speed of . She was designed to carry of coal, though she could carry up to ."
"7, 1898. She was a three deck steel ship of extra strength built for work in the Aleutian Archipelago where strong currents, distances from supply bases required a vessel of considerable power and coal capacity. She had 15 water tight compartments with dimensions of 196' 3"" over all, 33' 6"" beam, 19' 8"" ""depth of hold"" and equipped for sea draws 13'. She is brigantine-rigged with some 4,500 square feet of canvas and a single, 10' diameter 13' pitch, screw. Her vertical triple expansion steam engines with twenty-eight inch stroke developed 846 horsepower or 1,173 horsepower under forced draft with"
"She was carrying lumber to Cardiff, Wales. She was one of 72 cargo vessels built under the authority of Canada's Imperial Munitions Board. She was one of the 46 vessels with hulls built of wood. She displaced 2,500 deadweight tonnes. She was not launched until April 23, 1919. SS War Toronto The SS War Toronto was a small freighter built in Toronto, in 1918, by Toronto Dry Dock & Ship Building Company Limited. She was built for wartime service, during World War One. After the war she was employed carrying coal, in civilian service. She ran aground off Sweden in"
"Smeed-Dean Co Ltd until 1926 when it was sold. Based at Maldon. She was built in 1882 in Murston, Sittingbourne by Smeed Dean for their personal use. This meant she was a brick barge destined to take bricks from Sittingbourne or Snodland to London, and towns along the Kent and Essex coast. She was rated at 58 tons, and would carry a cargo of 110 GRT tons (the unit of volume). She was deep and did not have raised hatches or a raised cabin. She was steered with a tiller. Her compass was kept under the glass cabin hatch, so"
"built to carry passengers and cargo, and was powered by an 80 nhp steam engine as well as sails on two masts. The ship sailed from Glasgow on 6 June 1863, bound for Melbourne, arriving there on 16 September. Once at Melbourne, while undergoing an overhaul preparatory to her first commercial voyage, she was altered from a brig to a schooner rig. As the flagship of the Launceston and Melbourne Steam Navigation Company, no expense was spared in her fitting-out. On 21 October 1863 the ship made a trial voyage from Launceston to George Town, with between 450 and 500"
"during which the ship was able to maintain an average speed of over several runs on the measured mile on the Tyne in very unfavorable weather, she was transferred to her owners and immediately departed for New Orleans. The vessel was constructed for general cargo trade, and had an iron shelter deck built over the whole length of the ship, good for about 1,100 heads of cattle. She also had all the modern machinery fitted for quick loading and unloading of the cargo. In addition, the ship was fitted with refrigerating machinery and insulated chambers to carry dairy produce and"
", twin screw, awning deck type vessel of lighter construction in which the upper deck was not a full deck but a light covering deck above the main deck. There were two full decks. The ship was intended for the line's Baltimore and Galveston trade with limited cabin class accommodation and concentration on steerage passenger and cargo space. The ship was launched 24 July 1899 and placed in service 20 October 1899 on a voyage from Bremen to Galveston and on 21 December on initial service to Baltimore. Registry information shows 4,666 Net tonnage, registry length of , breadth and"
"USS Vanderbilt (1862) USS ""Vanderbilt"" (1862) was a heavy (3,360-ton) passenger steamship obtained by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War and utilized as a cruiser. ""Vanderbilt""—with her high speed of 14 knots—was outfitted with a large battery of heavy guns and sent out on the high seas in a futile search for commerce raiders of the Confederate States of America which were inflicting serious damage to Union commercial shipping. Later she served as part of the Union blockade of the Confederacy, and, post war, she had the honor of transporting the Queen of Hawaii"
"SS J.H.G. Hagarty The J.H.G. Hagarty was a Canadian Great Lakes freighter that served from her launching in 1914 to her scrapping in 1968. The ""Hagarty"" was used to haul bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal, grain and occasionally limestone. She had a length of 550-feet, a beam of 58-feet and a height of 31-feet. She was powered by a 2,400 horsepower triple expansion steam engine and fueled by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers. The ""Hagarty"" was constructed in 1914 by the Collingwood Shipbuilding Company of Collingwood, Ontario for the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam Navigation Company of Toronto,"
"tons and built in 1886 on the site later occupied by the Abrahamson-Herheim Company on Lake Street in Ludington. The 2-mast 83 ton schooner was 88 feet long by 22 feet wide and 6 feet deep. The schooner that traveled the Great Lakes was named after a nineteenth-century Ludington postmaster's wife in exchange for a windsock for the vessel. The merchandise shipped consisted of local Native Americans' collection of hemlock bark in Oceana County, Michigan. The bark was used for tanning leather. This bark along with wood was shipped with the schooner from Ludington to Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The"
"USS Zaca (ID-3792) The first USS ""Zaca"" (ID-3792) was a steel-hulled, single-screw freighter that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. ""Zaca"" was built under a United States Shipping Board contract and completed as SS ""Zaca"" in 1918 at Oakland, California, by the Moore Shipbuilding Company. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy for duty with the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS). Designated Id. No. 3792, she was commissioned as USS ""Zaca"" on 30 December 1918 at her builder's yard, Lieutenant Commander James J. Carey, USNRF, in command. Following sea trials, ""Zaca"" loaded 7,446 tons of flour"
"with compounds in response to innovative ships built for the White Star Line. This raised her tonnage to 3100 and her capacity to 150 cabin and 400 steerage. In 1879, she grounded outside Smithstown while transporting troops to South Africa. After her return, she was re-engined again. ""City of Paris"" was relieved in 1883 in the express service by ""City of Chicago"" and was sold to A Hoffnung & Company, London. In March 1884 she was one of the ships that participated in the 1878-to-1911 wave of Portuguese immigration to Hawaii, when she arrived on 13 June 1884 in Hawaii"
"The ship was assessed at and had 2 decks. She had a 1 x 4 cyl quadruple expansion engine driving a single screw propeller but she could also use her 10 sails for propulsion. The engine was rated at 1300 ihp. She commenced her maiden voyage on 15 October 1872 sailing from Rotterdam, The Netherlands via Plymouth, United Kingdom to New York, United States with on board were 10 Cabin class passengers, 60 emigrants and 600 tons of cargo was carried. The crossing was made in 14 days and 6 hours. This was also the first voyage of an own"
"1739. She was ordered in June 1740, to be constructed by shipwright Thomas West in the civilian dockyard at Deptford. Her dimensions were in keeping with other vessels of her class with an overall length of , a beam of and measuring 206 tonnes burthen. She had two masts, square-rigged and supported by a trysail mast aft of the main mast. Although fitted with seven pairs of gunports along her upper deck, she was armed with only eight four-pounder cannons with the remaining ports left unused. Twelve lightweight half-pounder swivel guns were also mounted on the deck, and her complement"
"USS Varuna (1861) USS ""Varuna"" (1861) was a heavy (1,300 ton) steam-powered ship acquired by the Union Navy during the early days of the American Civil War. She was outfitted with powerful 8-inch guns and assigned, as a gunboat, to the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America. ""Varuna"", the first U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, was originally intended for merchant service between New York City and New Orleans. She was laid down in late January or early February 1861 at the Mallory Yard, Mystic, Connecticut; launched there in the following September; and purchased"
"SS Illinois (1873) SS ""Illinois"" was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The last of a series of four ""Pennsylvania""-class vessels, ""Illinois"" and her three sister ships—""Pennsylvania"", ""Ohio"" and ""Indiana""—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines. They were also the first ships to challenge British dominance of the transatlantic trade since the American Civil War. Though soon outclassed by newer and larger vessels, ""Illinois"" was destined to enjoy a long and distinguished career,"
"the shipping line's first voyage, setting out from Avonmouth for Montreal on 26 May, before docking in Manchester with a cargo of grain. The two secondhand vessels were joined in January 1899 by the newly built ""Manchester City"" of 7,696 grt, constructed by Raylton Dixon & Co of Middlesbrough. This steamship carried of coal, burned at per day, giving a speed of , fast for her day. She was a refrigerated vessel, designed to carry frozen meat and live cattle, and was claimed to be one of the largest meat-carrying ships then afloat. She made a successful maiden voyage from"
"by New Admiralty yard, Saint Petersburg. Construction started on 29 October 1888, and she was launched on 3 July 1893. Completed in 1894, she was 600 tons over her designed displacement which led to an increase in draught and a loss in speed. Her trials were difficult and she had to return to Kronstadt to have repairs after 19 days. Several modernisation schemes to correct the defects were considered but did not proceed due to extensive demands on the Russian shipbuilding industry. The main armament comprised a single gun in a barbette mounting at the bow. The secondary armament comprised"
"U.S. Naval Constructor, was credited with supervising the drawings. She was built of wood in James D. Leary's yard at Williamsburg (Brooklyn) New York. Frames were white oak with cedar tops; planking, beams and lower deck were yellow pine, the upper deck was white pine. Her hull was fitted with iron diagonal braces, and five watertight bulkheads (3 wood, 2 iron). Power was a Cross compound vertical steam engine (one source reports 356 hp, another source says 215 ihp; this difference may represent different calculation or measurement methods) and she could carry 133 tons of coal as fuel. Her machinery"