SS Pisa (1896)

The Pisa ~ 1900

• Ascutney

The steamer Pisa was built for Sloman at Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow passenger ship for the North Atlantic traffic. Pisa was first used in 1897 and was in the vicinity when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on 15 April 1912.

Service history

The built at Alexander Stephen and Sons Pisa was the last for the Sloman shipping company built passenger ship and the first to be offered also great places for first-class passengers. She was launched on November 2, 1896 from the pile and began her maiden voyage from Hamburg to New York on 20 May 1897. Had the 12 knots propelled One choir Steiner space for 40 passengers I.class and 1,200 steerage passengers.

In 1903 she was chartered by the Hamburg-American Packet ride Actien -Gesellschaft ( Hapag ) and ran from the 11th of April for this company further from Hamburg to New York.

On 5 January 1904 she once drove from Odessa to Constantinople Opel, Smyrna (now İzmir Turkish name ), Piraeus to New York and back.

On September 1, 1907 Hapag acquired the ship, further shuttled between Hamburg and New York. On April 14, 1911, Pisa began her first trip to Canada from Hamburg to Quebec and Montreal.

On April 1, 1912, she ran again from Hamburg to St. John's ( Newfoundland). On April 14, she found herself in the same sea like the Titanic, ice sighted and reported it. On April 17, they arrived in St. John's.

Your last Canada trip began on August 29, 1913 and on April 11, 1914, she left Hamburg for the last time towards New York. From there they came to the new Mittelmeer-/Schwarzmeer-Linie used, which they had traveled as 1904 times. Beside her the same old Barcelona were ex Arabia and the Corcovado as the flagship of the line used. On 22 June 1914 she ran from Batumi to Constantinople Opel, Smyrna, Piraeus and New York, where she arrived on 22 July 1914. There she was launched after the war began. The guided by Captain Hauer Pisa was initially part of the planning for the supply of operating in the Atlantic cruisers and auxiliary cruisers.

When USA entered the war, she was seized and came as USS Ascutney in driving.

In 1934, she was in Boston, Massachusetts, canceled.