SS Cabo Machichaco
Steamship whose cargo of dynamite exploded in Santander, Spain in 1893 and 1894 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cabo Machichaco was an iron-hulled cargo steamship that was built in England in 1882 as Benisaf, and renamed Cabo Machichaco in 1886. She was destroyed by two explosions in her cargo in 1893 and 1894 in the port of Santander, Spain. The first explosion killed several hundred people in the city of Santander as well as on the ship, and was Spain's worst peacetime disaster in the 19th century. The second explosion killed a number of workers who were salving the remainder of her cargo from her sunken wreck.
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Cabo Machichaco in Santander Harbour after the first explosion | |
History | |
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Namesake | 1882: Béni Saf |
Owner |
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Port of registry | |
Route | 1886: Bilbao – Marseille |
Builder | Schlesinger, Davis & Co, Wallsend |
Yard number | 121 |
Launched | January 1882 |
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Fate | Destroyed by cargo explosions in 1893 and 1894 |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo ship |
Tonnage | 1,689 GRT, 1,148 NRT |
Length | 260.0 ft (79.2 m) |
Beam | 33.7 ft (10.3 m) |
Depth | 19.4 ft (5.9 m) |
Installed power | 200 NHP |
Propulsion | 2-cylinder compound engine |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h) |
Crew | 35 |
Notes | sister ship: Lavrion |
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