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| Launched 1880: ss PARISIAN |
ss PARISIAN
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ss PARISIAN
built by Robert Napier Govan,
Yard No 375 Engines by Robert Napier Govan
Propulsion: steam, single screw, compound inverted, 3 clys, 1 X 60 inch, 2 X 85 inch, stroke 60 inches, 800 hp, 14 knots. New triple expansion engines by Workman Clark & Co, 1899
Launched: Thursday, 04/11/1880
Built: 1881
Ship Type: Passenger Vessel
Ship's Role: North Atlantic Mail Steamer
Tonnage: 5395 grt
Length: 440.8 feet
Breadth: 46.2 feet
Owner History:
J & A Allan & Co Glasgow
1897 Allan Line SS Co.
Status: Scrapped - 1914
Web site: http://www.greatships.net/parisian.html
Remarks: Maiden voyage March 10th 1881 Liverpool
Halifax
Boston. When built she was amongst the largest liners of the day and was the biggest yet built for the North Atlantic Mail run. Her career was marked by two incidents. On March 25th 1905 she was rammed by the German steamer ALBANO as she approached Halifax. It is unclear how the accident happened but perhaps the engineer on the German ship mis
interpreted the signal to go astern as the German ship had indicated, instead she bore down on the Allan liner. The Scots captain realised that he was going to be hit ordered full speed to ensure that, at the least, she would not be struck mid ships. Onlookers said they had never seen a ship approach a wharf so fast. The German liner struck her and as she began to list the captain urged the vessel on and successfully docked her, all passengers landed, and then she settled to the bottom, her captain resolutely sticking to the bridge until she finally rested with water around his knees! Her second incident of newsworthiness is her involvement with the TITANIC disaster. At first she was reported to have landed passengers from the vessel on to CARPATHIA. This was untrue, but her telegraph operator was widely quoted on his reports of having sent out sufficient warnings that icebergs were much further south than usual.
Broken up at Genoa Q1/1914
Picture from above website.
Photo supplied by Stuart Cameron
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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