User:Legendwolf/SSAmericas
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American LineUS | |
Name | SS Americas |
Owner | American Line |
Operator | Owner operated |
Port of registry | Baltimore, Maryland |
Route | Carried sailors to passenger ships and american battleships. |
Ordered | May 17 1869 |
Builder | list error: <br /> list (help) Harland and Wolff Belfast |
Laid down | 1871 |
Launched | November 30 1872 |
Completed | 1872 |
In service | 1872 |
Out of service | 2005 |
Renamed | SS Coos Bay |
Fate | Caught fire in 1996, repaired and returned to passenger service. |
Status | Retired |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 675 tons |
Length | 210 ft (64.00800 m)* |
Beam | 36 ft (10.97 m)* |
Decks | 2 |
Propulsion | 2 double expansion engines powering 2 triple blade screws. |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Capacity | 1,250 passengers and mail |
Crew | 21 |
The SS Americas was a british ship built for America Line she would serve as SS Coos Bay but it was renamed to Americas in 1872 during it's first launch. In 1996 it's hull bursted into flames within minutes the ship's bow sunk in the water as it was only 28 feet it was raised and repaired.