SS Prinses Amalia
 | |
| Career (Netherlands) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SS Prinses Amalia |
| Owner: |
Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland 1874-1904[1] L. Pittaluga 1906[1] |
| Builder: | John Elder & Co. |
| Yard number: | 166[1] |
| Launched: | 19 March 1874[2] |
| In service: | 1874 |
| Out of service: | 1906 |
| Renamed: | Amalia, 1906 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1906 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Passenger liner[1] |
| Tonnage: | 3,480 GRT[2] |
| Length: | 371 ft 6 in (113.2 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 39 ft 9 in (12.1 m)[1] |
| Draught: | 22.2 feet (6.8 m)[1] |
| Installed power: | 1,600 ihp (1,200 kW) (as built) |
| Propulsion: | As built:: Single screw, 2-cylinder 50 & 86 in × 42 in (1,300 & 2,200 mm × 1,100 mm) steam engine[2] From 1892: Single screw, triple-expansion 3-cylinder steam engine by Kon. Maats De Schelde, Vlissingen[2] |
| Sail plan: | 3-masted barque |
| Speed: | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
SS Prinses Amalia was a Dutch steam ship built for the Netherland Line (Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (SMN) or Netherlands Steamship Company) in 1874 by John Elder & Co. of Govan on the River Clyde.[2]
Routing
Prinses Amalia was one of the earliest steamers to operate in the Amsterdam - Java service (inaugurated by SMN in 1871), spending her entire service life on this route.[2]
Fate
She was broken up at Genoa in 1906 having been renamed Amalia for her final delivery voyage.[2]
Notable passengers
- Mata Hari, departed Amsterdam 1 May 1897 bound for the Dutch East Indies.[3]
- Eugène Dubois, departed Amsterdam 29 October 1887 bound for the Dutch East Indies.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Prinses Amalia". Clyde Built Ships. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "SS Prinses Amalia". Clyde-built Ships Database. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ↑ "Mata Hari". Encyclopedia of World Biography. YourDictionary.Com. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ↑ Shipman, Pat (2002). The man who found the missing link : Eugène Dubois and his lifelong quest to prove Darwin right (1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 76 and 538. ISBN 9780674008663.
