SS Prinses Amalia
History | |
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Netherlands | |
Name: | SS Prinses Amalia |
Owner: | |
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: |
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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 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Prinses Amalia". Clyde Built Ships. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 76 and 538. ISBN 9780674008663.
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