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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| CITY OF NEW YORK |
93793 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1888 |
15/03/1888 |
07/1988 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger
| Steel Screw Steamer 3 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| James & George Thomson, Clydebank |
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240 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 10499 grt / 5559 nrt / |
527.6 ft |
63.2 ft |
39.2 ft |
22.0 ft |
| Engine builder |
James & George Thomson, Clydebank |
| Engine detail |
| 2 x T3cyl (45, 71, 113 x 60in), 1978nhp, 2- Screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Inman & International S.S. Co. Ltd., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
| 1893 NEW YORK - 1898 USS HARVARD - 1898 NEW YORK - 1918 USS PLATTSBURG - 1919 NEW YORK |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1893 International Navigation Company, New York
04-09/1898 US Navy requisition as an auxiliary cruiser and transport
1903 International Mercantile Marine Co., New York
05/1918 US Navy requisition as a transport.
1921 Polish Nav Co. of New York
1922 Worden & Co. Inc., New York |
| Vessel history |
Built for Liverpool - New York service
08/1892 won the Blue Riband, average 20.11 knots
Post 1921 on New York - Danzig and Mediterranean services. |
| Remarks |
Sponsor, Lady Randolph Churchill
Passengers as built, 540 1st., 200 2nd. and 1000 steerage. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1923 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| Broken up at Genoa Q1/1923 (sold by auction while laid up at Constantinople) |
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