Steamships

VESSEL INFORMATION--
VESSEL NAME: HENRY CHAUNCEY
VESSEL TYPE: wooden paddle wheel side-wheel brigantine
SERVICE DATES: 1864-1871
DATE WRECKED: August 16, 1871
SHIP BUILDER: William H. Webb
BUILDER LOCATION: New York, New York
TRADE ROUTE: NEW YORK, ASPINWALL

• HMS Lively (1870) was a wooden paddle despatch vessel launched in 1870 and wrecked in 1883 near Stornoway.

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RMS Caronia was a Cunard Line transatlantic steam ocean liner. She was launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1932. In World War I she was first an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) and then a troop ship.

RMS City of Chester was a British passenger steamship that sailed on the transatlantic route from 1873 to 1898.

RMS Gallia was built in 1878 for the Cunard Line, entering service in 1879. In service until 1899, the vessel ran aground off the coast of Quebec, Canada and was not repaired. The ship was broken up for scrap in 1900.

RMS Lucania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 2 February 1893. Identical in dimensions and specifications to her sister ship and running mate RMS Campania, RMS Lucania was the joint largest passenger liner afloat when she entered service in 1893. On her second voyage, she won the prestigious Blue Riband from the other Cunarder to become the fastest passenger liner afloat, a title she kept until 1898.

RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend on the River Tyne, England, launched in 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania captured the eastbound Blue Riband speed record on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the westbound record during her 1909 season and then held both speed records for 20 years.

Scotia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1863 for the fastest westbound transatlantic voyage. She was the last oceangoing paddle steamer, and as late as 1874 she made Cunard's second fastest voyage. Laid up in 1876, Scotia was converted to a twin-screw cable layer in 1879. She served in her new role for twenty-five years until she was wrecked off of Guam in March 1904.

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• SS Golden City: Launched January 24, 1863 for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company she entered the San Francisco to Panama City service on August 13, 1863 and continued this until 1869. She was lost on the coast of Baja California on February 10, 1870.

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The Holsatia was 3134 tons, 103.6m long x 12.2m wide (339.9ft x 40.0 ft), straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts, made of iron, single propeller, 12 knots. Passengers 90 1st class, 130 2nd class, 520 3rd class. Built by Caird & Co, Greenock, Scotland for the German Hamburg-America Line (Now Hapag-Lloyd). Launched on 9 March 1868.

Year built    Date launched    Date completed
1870     18/01/1870      
Vessel type    Vessel description
Passenger / Cargo      Iron Screw Steamer  
Builder    Yard    Yard no
William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton    Leven Yard     136 

SS Abyssinia was a British mail liner built in 1870, and originally operated by the Cunard Line on the Liverpool–New York route. She later served the Guion Line on the same route and the Canadian Pacific Line in the Pacific. In December 1891, Abyssinia was destroyed mid-Atlantic without loss of life by a fire that started in her cargo of cotton, highlighting the danger in carrying both cotton and passengers on the same ship.

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Mark Twain spoke of the steamship Acquila in this "Parting Presentation" to Major Edward C. Perry of New York City on June 13, 1864. The Aquila had sunk fully loaded at Hathaway’s wharf during a heavy storm the night of 15 November 1863. The cargo was the dismantled monitor Camanche, a mobile fortress assigned by the War Department to protect San Francisco against the possibility of raids by marauding Confederate warships.

Ajax was a wooden, propeller-driven steamship built in 1864. She provided logistical support to the Union Army on the Atlantic coast during the American Civil War. After the war she was sent to San Francisco where she provided freight and passenger services between that city and other ports on the Pacific coast. She provided the first scheduled steamship service between the United States and Hawaii.

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The SS America was built at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1854-55. Original Owner: Great Western RR Company. Rebuilt by Samuel Sneeden, Greenpoint, 1858. New Owner: Peter A. Hargous. Name changed to Coatzocoalcos in 1859. Chartered to the Quartermaster s Department, War Department in 1861 and 1862 from $1200 to $1400 per day. Name changed to America in 1862. Operated from New York to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua for the Central American Transit Company. Her last sailing from San Francisco for the Transit Company was on February 15, 1868.

SS Baltic was an Oceanic-class ocean liner that was built in 1871 for the White Star Line. She was one of the first four ships ordered by White Star from shipbuilders Harland & Wolff after Thomas Ismay bought the company, and the third ship of the Oceanic class to be delivered. In 1888 Holland America Line bought her, and renamed her Veendam. In 1898 she struck a submerged wreck and sank, but with no loss of life.

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City of New York was a British built passenger liner that was designed to be the largest and fastest liner on the Atlantic. When she entered service with the Inman Line in August 1888, she was the first twin screw express liner in the world, and while she did not achieve the westbound Blue Riband, she ultimately held the eastbound record from August 1892 to May 1893 at a speed of 20.11 knots. City of New York and her sister City of Paris are considered especially beautiful ships, and throughout their careers were rivals to White Star Line's Teutonic and Majestic.

SS Graf Waldersee was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Germany in 1898 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the third of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that were built in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.

In 1919 HAPAG surrendered Graf Waldersee to the United States as part of Germany's World War I reparations to the Allies. She became the United States Navy troop ship USS Graf Waldersee (ID-4040) and was used to repatriate American Expeditionary Forces troops from Europe.

Built at Buffalo NY by King Iron Works
Launched July 1871

220’ LOA, 206’ LBP, 32’ beam, 24’2” depth
2 decks, coal-fired boiler, low pressure engine

Enrolled at Erie PA July 16, 1871 (#1)
210.0 x 32.6 x 14.0, 1239.46 tons (gross tons, 932.02 NT 1882)     US 100008     to:
Erie & Western Transportation Co., Erie PA (home port Erie PA) Great Lakes vessel fleet of Pennsylvania Railroad, as known as the “Anchor Line”

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SS La Gascogne Passenger Lists 1891-1892

See Day By Day June 6, 1891

First-class passengers enjoyed the central third of the vessel, on the main, upper, and promenade decks. Second-class passengers had reserved for their sole use the after-part of the ship, with a large smoking-room forward of their upper-deck space. The after saloon was in American walnut and light oak. The after state-rooms were equally handsome, and all the after accommodation, including the ladies' room and the smoking-room, was described as being thought extravagantly luxurious. The steerage passengers were accommodated on the middle and fore part of the lower deck.
 

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Scottish Built Ships