Main, 1900

Item

Identifier: imm-0203

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.

Dates

Creation: 1900

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: North German Lloyd

Builder and location: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany

Tonnage and dimensions: 10,067 tons; 501' x 58'

Machinery and speed: Twin-screw, 14 knots

Masts and funnels: 4 masts, 1 funnel

Passengers: 1st class: 148; 2nd class: 116; 3rd class: 2,500

Routes: Bremen-NY; Bremen-NY-Baltimore

History: Sank June 30, 1900, after involvement in NY dock fire, but was refloated and reconditioned (accommodations after that time: II-369; III-217; IV-2,865). Laid up at Antwerp during WWI. Came into British hands in 1919, but was allotted to the French governme

Legacy record identifier: Main1900