RMS Victorian

  • Marloch

The cargo - passenger ship Victorian was the first steam ship on the transatlantic liner service.

History

The Victorian expired on August 25, 1904 at the shipyard Workman, Clark & ​​Co., Belfast, Northern Ireland finished as hull number 206 from the stack and in March 1905 the well-known shipping company Allan Line of Glasgow. It was the first steam ship and the first three -screw ship in regular service between the United States and Europe. The maiden voyage took her on 23 March 1905 by Liverpool to Saint John, New Brunswick. In the same year was finalized its sister ship, the Virginian. In the same year, the first voyages were made to Quebec and Montreal. During World War II, the Victorian was used as an armed merchant cruiser and passed after the takeover of the Allan Line by the shipping company Canadian Pacific in 1916 to the new owner. In 1920 it was returned to service after an overhaul at the shipyard Cammell Laird & Company again. In 1921 the ship at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering was equipped with split into only two classes of passenger facilities and with new drive system and oil firing in 1922, renamed in Marloch to be put back into operation. As early as 1925 but it was launched and only used sporadically to be finally canceled from April 17, 1929 in Milford Haven.

Arrangement

The ship was divided as follows:

  • Four regular passenger decks & tween decks.
  • Five furnished as cold rooms partially holds.

The first class passengers stayed on the bridge and promenade deck, the second-class passengers on the main and upper deck. The 940 steerage passengers were accommodated in collecting quarters. In addition to passengers, the ship could carry 800 tonnes still predominantly cooled charge.

Trivia

Your built at the shipyard Alexander Stephen and Sons in Linthouse sister ship Virginian was completed just a month later, but not until 1955 canceled after almost exactly 50 years of service in Trieste.

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