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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]
The SS Morro Castle was a passenger ship build in 1899 for the Ward Line Company. She was launched in April 14, 1900 and was named after the fortress of the same name, at the entrance to the Havana Bay, Cuba. On 14 May 1904 she sank the schooner Pleiades in a collision at sea after leaving New York for Havana. [1]
Saturday, Sept. 8, 1934 — 90 Years Ago. This date would be remembered for the worst maritime disaster to happen in the Jersey Shore’s history when the S.S. Morro Castle, an ocean liner en ...
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 ...
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.
Castillo San Felipe del Morro, a fortress in San Juan, Puerto Rico Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca , also called "Castillo del Morro" ("Morro Castle"), a fortress guarding Santiago, Cuba Ship
Morro Castle appears in the movie The Ghost Breakers (1940) in the background as Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard enter the harbor by ship. The climactic scenes from The Big Boodle (1957) starring Errol Flynn were shot at Morro Castle in pre-Castro Cuba.
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 ...