| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Stephen B Guion (Guion Line), Liverpool |
Liverpool |
25/10/1881 |
| Other names |
| 1896 MAGALLANES - 1898 ALASKA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1884 Richard Pearce, Govan
c1885 William G Pearce, London
1888 Guion Steamship Co Ltd, London - reg London
1899 Thomas W Ward, Sheffield
1900 Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd., London |
| Vessel history |
For Liverpool-New York service
13/7/1881 launching ceremony held but ship stuck halfway down the ways.
4/1882 won the Blue Riband, and subsequently beat own record three times; in 1883 was first to exceed 17kn average speed.
1884 Guion Line was in financial difficulties and vessel taken over by Richard, and then William, Pearce - the owners of Elders shipyard
1888 6932grt 3554nrt; 1897 7152grt 3752nrt
1893 laid up in the Gareloch
1896 after a trooping charter for Compania Trasatlantica, Spain, laid up again
1900 shipyard workers' hostel at Barrow. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1902 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| 9/1902 broken up at Preston by T W Ward Ltd. |
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