SS Anglo Saxon (1856)
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For other ships with the same name, see SS Anglo Saxon.
SS Anglo Saxon was an iron screw steam ship belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company which was wrecked with great loss of life on the Newfoundland coast on 27 April 1863.
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Name | Anglo Saxon |
Owner | J & A Allan & Co., Glasgow |
Operator | Montreal Ocean Steamship Company |
Builder | William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland |
Yard number | 56 |
Launched | 1856 |
Fate | Wrecked 27 April 1863 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Tonnage | 1,700 GRT |
Length | 283 ft (86 m) |
Beam | 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m) |
Draught | 16 ft 2 in (4.93 m) |
Propulsion | Compound steam engines, 250 hp (186 kW) |
Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) |
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