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Teutonic as seen in the Spithead Naval Review. In the late 1880s competition for the Blue Riband, the award for the fastest Atlantic crossing, was fierce amongst the top steamship lines, and White Star decided to order two ships from Harland and Wolff that would be capable of an average Atlantic crossing speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).
RMS Teutonic was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line in Belfast, which entered service in 1889. She was the sister ship of RMS Majestic . Teutonic and her sister were the flagships of White Star Line's fleet for around a decade, until Oceanic entered service in 1899.
Constructed by Harland & Wolff, Majestic was launched on 29 June 1889 and was delivered to White Star in March 1890. White Star had sought to fund the construction of both Majestic and her sister Teutonic through the British government, a proposal which was accepted with the stipulation that the Royal Navy would have access to the two liners in a time of war as Armed Merchant Cruisers.
This is a list of passenger ships of the Los Angeles Steamship Company: sister ships Harvard (1920-1931) and Yale (1920-) Waimea (1923-1932) purchased from the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company (trading among the Hawaiian Islands) in March 1923; 210ft long, 12 knots, 900 tons cargo capacity
A passenger ship that collided with RMS Oceanic in San Francisco Bay 37°48′50″N 122°28′00″W / 37.81389°N 122.46667°W / 37.81389; -122.46667 ( SS City of City of Rio de Janeiro
SS California entering Havana Harbor, Cuba in 1934.. California was the first of three sister ships built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia for the Panama Pacific Lines, a subsidiary of American Line Steamship Corporation which was a part of J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Company.
The Sierra was a favorite honeymoon ship for passengers wanting to travel from California to Honolulu, Hawaii. [3] Her sister ships were the S. S. Sonoma (1900) and the S. S. Ventura (1900). In 1934, Yuji Kimoto of Osaka, Japan bought the ships from the Oceanic Steamship Company for the price of $59,500 each. [4]
California was 8,662 GRT and 5,403 NRT, with a length of 470 feet (140 m), a beam of 58.3 ft (17.8 m) and a depth of 34 ft (10 m). The California had three decks: the poop deck was 70 feet (21 m) long, the bridge 213 feet (65 m) long and the forecastle 91 ft (28 m) long. She had two black funnels and two masts.