SS Dwinsk
1897 ocean liner sunk by a U-boat in 1918 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named SS Rotterdam.
SS Dwinsk was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in Ireland in 1897 as Rotterdam, renamed C. F. Tietgen in 1906, and renamed Dwinsk in 1913. A U-boat sank her in 1918, with the loss of 23 lives. The ship was built for Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM), but was successively owned by Scandinavian America Line and Russian American Line, and after the Russian Revolution she was managed by Cunard Line.
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The ship as Rotterdam, in a painting by Fred Pansing | |
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Namesake |
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Owner |
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Operator | 1917: Cunard Line |
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Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 312 |
Laid down | 16 May 1896 |
Launched | 18 February 1897 |
Completed | 29 July 1897 |
Maiden voyage | 18 August 1897 |
Identification |
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Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-151, 18 June 1918 |
General characteristics | |
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Tonnage | 8,139 GRT, 5,160 NRT, 9,390 DWT |
Length | 470.3 ft (143.3 m) |
Beam | 53.2 ft (16.2 m) |
Depth | 22.3 ft (6.8 m) |
Decks | 3 |
Installed power | 954 NHP, 5,500 ihp |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
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Armament | by 1918: defensively armed |
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She was the third of several NASM ships to be named after the city of Rotterdam. She was also the first ship that Harland & Wolff built for NASM.