Ottawa, 1874

Item

Identifier: imm-0244

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: 1874

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: Dominion Line

Builder and location: Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Ireland

Tonnage and dimensions: 5,009 tons; 455' x 45'

Machinery and speed: Single-screw, 16 knots

Masts and funnels: 4 masts, 2 funnels

Passengers: 2nd class: 250; 3rd class: 1,500

Routes: Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal

History: Built as GERMANIC for White Star Line; sailed 1875-1903 for the line. Chartered to American Line 1904. Acquired by Dominion Line in 1905; sailed Liverpool-Canada until 1909. 1911-renamed GUL DJEMAL (Turkish). Torpedoed and sunk by British submarine May 19

Legacy record identifier: Ottawa1874