SS Vaderland

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The passenger steamer tank Vaderland represented a type of ship, the same petroleum in bulk as well as passengers should be transported with the.

History

The Vaderland the only representative of this type was built in 1872 at the shipyard Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in Yarrow upon Tyne, UK as hull number 289, also known as the Red Star Line shipping company Belgian Societe Anonyme de Navigation Belge - Americaine in Antwerp. It should be operated in regular service between the United States and Europe. The basic idea of this ship, which anticipated the essential elements of the first 1886 also built on Tyne in Newcastle Good luck, to avoid the typical for the tanker ballast drive to the port of loading was. The already completed when it was not received by the competent authorities, the permission required for passenger transport. The shipping company withdrew its operating both ways and let the Vaderland, as well as her sister ships already under construction located Nederland and Switzerland converted to conventional general cargo ships. In 1889 the ship was sold to a French owners and renamed Geographique. Already on October 2, 1889 the ship, 45 miles west of Saint- Pierre and Miquelon sank after a collision.

Cargo space arrangement

The ship was divided into two areas:

  • Three passenger decks.
  • Five disposed below the passenger decks, with from midships up over filling and expansion slots to be filled with oil petroleum tanks. The vent analog via the above slots. The tank walls formed with between 50 and 70 cm away the outer skin of the vessel into a double hull.
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