SS Ivernia — historic photograph

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SS Ivernia

1899 British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line

1900 C. S. Swan & Hunter, Wallsend, England 13,900 GRT 600 ft Shipwreck
13,900GRT
Tonnage
600ft
Length
64.5ft
Beam
16.8knots
Speed
1,964passengers
Passengers

RMS Ivernia was a British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by C. S. Swan & Hunter of Wallsend, England, and launched in 1899. The Ivernia was one of Cunard's intermediate ships that catered to the vast immigrant trade between Europe and the United States of America in the early 20th century. She saw military service during World War I and was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat on New Year's Day 1917.

Ivernia was the first of three related liners of the Ivernia class. Saxonia was her larger sister ship, and was launched three months after her at John Brown & Company of Clydebank, leaving Ivernia the largest Cunard steamer during those months. Carpathia, later to be made famous for rescuing the survivors of the Titanic disaster, was a smaller half-sister of Ivernia and Saxonia, built at the same yard as Ivernia and launched in 1902, to a modified design based on her older half-sisters.

Text: Wikipedia — RMS Ivernia (1899), CC BY-SA 4.0

Tonnage
13,900 GRT
Length
600 ft total
Beam
64.5 ft
Draught
31.6 ft
Speed
16.8 knots (achieved on trials)
Passengers
1,964 passengers
Builder
C. S. Swan & Hunter, Wallsend, England
Yard number
247
Launched
21 September 1899
Maiden voyage
14 April 1900, Liverpool to New York
Owner
Cunard Line
Port of registry
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Propulsion
Steam quadruple-expansion engines geared to twin propellers
Fate
Torpedoed and sunk, 1 January 1917
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