Category:Tacoma (ship, 1870)

Ship

• Type:
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by William Denny and Bros of Dumbarton, Scotland
• Yard No 136
• Keel laid:
• Launch date: 18.01.1870
• Date of completion: 1870
• Length over all: 99.8 m
• LPP: 327.4 ft
• Beam: 39.3 ft
• Draught:
• Depth: 18.6 ft
• GRT: 2,553
• DWT:
• NRT:1,628
• Sail area:
• Main engine: Steam compound
• Screw: 1
• Speed: 12 kn
• Passengers: 150-1st class and 800-3rd class

History

• 1870 Named Batavia for the Cunard Line.
• 10.05.1870 Left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Queenstown (Cobh) and New York
• 06.02.1884 Last voyage on this service,
• 1884 Sold to John Elder & Co.[shipbuilders] in part exchange for the "Umbria" and "Etruria"
• 1885 Fitted with triple expansion engines.
• 1887–1891 Ran on the Pacific for for Canadian Pacific
• 1892 Sold to Northern Pacific. Renamed Tacoma
• 1898 Sold to North American Mail (US) and in 1901, back to Northern Pacific.
• 1904 Sold to North Western Commercial
• 1905 Seized by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War Renamed: Shikotan Maru
• 03.10.1924 Stranded near Shaiweishan, was refloated and scrapped.