Salier, 1875

Item

Identifier: imm-0282

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: 1875

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: Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Jull, England

Tonnage and dimensions: 3,098 tons; 354' x 39'

Machinery and speed: Single-screw, 13 knots

Masts and funnels: 2 masts, 1 funnel

Routes: Bremen-Southampton-NY; Bremen-South America; Bremen-Australia

History: Pioneer North German Lloyd mail steamer to Australia. Mainly on Germany-Australia route, but also sailed Bremen-South America, as well as to NY. Sunk in Bay of Biscay December 1897, with a great loss of life.

Legacy record identifier: Salier1875