Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 129

Name:

 CUBA

Year:

 1864

Description:

 Passenger Cargo Ship

Webpage:

 Yes

Picture:

 Yes

Tonnage:

 2,832

Length:

 338.2

Width:

 42.4

H.P.:

 560 : 12½ knots

Type:

 Iron, Single Screw, 2 Oscillating geared engines. Three masts one funnel.

Customer:

 Cunard Line

Fate:

 Wrecked in Nov. 6th 1887 near Aldbrough, Yorkshire

Points of Note:

 Cost £110k to build. Was geared with oscillating engines to give a speed of 12.8 knots

Date of Launch:

 

Notes:

          Three masts and one funnel. Accommodations for 160 cabin passengers. She made 13.6 knots on trials.

[Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships, Eugene W.Smith]

 

          Maiden voyage was Liverpool-New York 3rd Dec 1864.

[Passenger Ships of the World, Eugene W.Smith]

 

          So encouraged were the Cunard line by the success of the China, which was built by Robert Napier very much on Inman Lines, that they ordered an improved edition in the Cuba, which was launched in 1864. She had a gross tonnage of 2,668 and geared oscillating 2-cylinder engines of 3,300 ihp with surface condensers. One of her features was that the safety valves discharged waste steam under water in order not to subject the passengers to the unpleasant noise. This was an idea borrowed from the blockade runners in the American Civil War. On trial she averaged 13.66 knots and was a good, economical steamer and popular passenger carrier.

[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]

 

              In 1876 Cuba was sold to D. Brown, London, and converted to a four-masted sailing ship renamed Earl of Beaconsfield.

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