SS La Touraine
The La Touraine was a 1891 put into operation in trans-Atlantic passenger steamers of the French shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT ). It was in 1922 after 31 years of service from service and scrapped the following year. The La Touraine was one of the most popular French passenger ships of the turn of the century.
History
The steamship La Touraine was built at the shipyard Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in Saint- Nazaire for the same shipping company and ran on 21 March 1890 by the stack. With a tonnage of 8893 gross register tons (GRT ), it was the largest ever ship the CGT. It was not until about ten years later were asked (both 11,168 GRT) larger ocean liner in service with the sister ship La Lorraine and La Savoie.
The 158.56 meters long and 17.07 meters wide ship had two funnels and three masts. It was powered by two three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine, which had two propellers and enabled a cruising speed of 19 knots. The relatively large and fast steamer was built for the North Atlantic passenger and mail traffic from Le Havre to New York and was there for the accommodation of 392 passengers in first class, 98 designed in the Second Class and 600 in third class.
On 20 June 1891, La Touraine launched on her maiden voyage to New York. In July 1892 she made a crossing in six days, 17 hours and 30 minutes, reaching a top speed of 21.2 knots while. Between November 1901 and January 17, 1902 23, they underwent a renovation in Saint-Nazaire, built into the framework of a bilge keel, reconditioned machines and one of the three masts were dismantled. The passenger capacity of the third class has been increased to 1000 passengers. The reconstruction, the volume was reduced to 8429 tons. On January 21, 1903, came at berth in Le Havre to a fire on board. The main staircase, the dining room and the luxury cabins were destroyed and had to be completely replaced before the vessel could leak to New York again.
1910 were carried out re- conversions, so that the cars of the La Touraine could accommodate 69 passengers henceforth the First, 263 Second and 686 third class. The La Touraine was one of the many ships on their maiden voyage in April 1912 warned the Titanic icebergs. Between May 1913 and June 1914 she led five tours through on the route Le Havre - Quebec -Montreal and promoted it only travelers the Second and Third Class. On one of these crossings, the La Touraine was the British passenger steamer Volturno to the aid of the drive burning and rudderless on the Atlantic Ocean in October 1913. The La Touraine took on 40 people and collided during the rescue operation almost to the much larger Kroon land of the Red Star Line, which had also come to the accident, among other ships.
It was only on 13 March 1915, she ran back out for a drive on the original route Le Havre - New York. Just one month later, on April 13, 1915, she was transferred to the route Bordeaux - New York. In September 1915, the La Touraine again took on a shipwrecked passenger ship in flames, this time from the Greek steamer Athinai. From February 9, 1919, the La Touraine shuttled back between Le Havre and New York on 26 September 1922, she ran after more than 30 years of service to her last Atlantic crossing on this route. In October 1923, the La Touraine was scrapped at Dunkirk.