SS Lusitania
This article is about SS Lusitania, a Portuguese liner. For the Cunard liner torpedoed and sunk in 1915, see RMS Lusitania.
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| History | |
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| Name: | SS Lusitania |
| Owner: | Empreza Nacional De Navegacao |
| Builder: | Sir Raylton Dixon & Company, Middlesbrough |
| Yard number: | 519 |
| Launched: | 1906 |
| Fate: | Wrecked on 18 April 1911 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 5,557 Gross Register Tonnage |
| Length: | 421 ft (128 m) |
| Beam: | 51 ft (16 m) |
| Draught: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 754 nominal horsepower |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
SS Lusitania was a Portuguese twin-screw liner of 5557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empreza Nacional De Navegacao, of Lisbon.
The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people on board, eight died when a life boat capsized.[1] On 20 April the ship slipped off the rock into 37 metres (121 feet) of water to the east of the rock.
Map of the wreck site of the SS Lusitania
The sinking of Lusitania spurred the local authorities to construct a new lighthouse on the Cape Point.[2]
References
- ↑ "ThinkQuest". thinkquest.org.
- ↑ Hampton, C, McIlleron, A (2006) Table Mountain to Cape Point, Struik, Cape Town, P137
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