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Each ship was luxuriously finished to accommodate 489 passengers in first and tourist class and 240 officers and crew. In a growing age of passenger ships having cruiser sterns, Morro Castle and Oriente were built with classic counter sterns. As built, Morro Castle was equipped with direction finding and submarine signalling equipment. [2]
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The Morro Castle was 121.92 metres (400 ft 0 in) long and 15.24 metres (50 ft 0 in) wide and had two masts, two funnels and two propellers. The black painted hull was surmounted by a white superstructure. The ship was powered by triple expansion steam engines that allow a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The passenger accommodations ...
SS Morro Castle may refer to: SS Morro Castle (1900) A ship launched by the Ward Line and scrapped in 1926. SS Morro Castle (1930) A ship burned in 1934.
The cutter Tampa was attempting to get a line aboard the ship and planned to tow it to New York Harbor. ... One hundred and ninety-nine out of 558 persons aboard the Morro Castle had been rescued ...
The New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, commonly called the Ward Line, was a shipping company that operated from 1841 until liquidated in 1954.The line operated out of New York City's Piers 15, 16, and 17—land which later became the site of the South Street Seaport and also the Manhattan terminal of the IKEA-Red Hook ferry route.
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company built Oriente for Ward Line as a sister ship to SS Morro Castle. Oriente was completed in 1930, two months after Morro Castle . Each ship was 508 feet (155 metres) long, measured 11,520 gross register tons (GRT) and had turbo-electric transmission , with General Electric twin turbo generators ...
The first Navy ship named USS New Jersey was a World War I-era battleship commissioned in 1906. She was part of Theodore Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet," a group of 16 battleships that traveled ...