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MADIANA

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:08 pm

Built as an iron passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 356 by Robert Napier & Sons at Govan near Glasgow for the Castle Mail Packets Co. Ltd. (D-Currie & Co.).
02 November 1876 launched as the BALMORAL CASTLE (I). One sister the DUNROBIN CASTLE.
Tonnage ,2,984 gross, 1,884 net, dim. 105.08 x 12.01 x 8.86m.
Powered by a compound inverted 2-cyl. steam engine, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 383 nhp., one shaft, speed 10 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 100 first, 50 second and 100 emigrants.
Her dining salon had individual swivel seats instead of a upholstered bench.
15 February 1977 completed.

She was the first vessel built for the Castle Mail Packets Co. Ltd.
November 1876 entered the mail and passenger service between the U.K. and South Africa.
By 1882 the trade had slumped and she was sold to the Spanish company Marques de Compo (Cia Transatlantica), renamed in SAN AUGUSTIN, and used in the service between Barcelona-Cadiz-Tenerife to Havana.
1886 Sold to A. McMillan, Glasgow and renamed again in BALMORAL CASTLE.
1887 Sold to J.Kilgour, London not renamed.
16 June 1888 following a period under repair on the Clyde for fire damage, she rammed and cut in two and sank the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South England R.M.S.P. Co’s paddle steamer PRINCESS OF WALES with the loss of three lives, at that time the ferry underwent trials.
1892 Sold to Quebec Steam Ship Co. at London, registered in Canada and renamed MADIANA.

On a voyage from New York to Kingston in Jamaica with passengers and cargo, she ran aground off Bermuda on 10 February 1903, without loss of live. The ship was lost.
During World War II partially salvaged, but her twin huge boilers and stern still visible, she lays about 8 meters below water.

Bermuda:1986 7c sg 509A, scott 484.

Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Merchant Fleets in profile Vol. 3 by Duncan Haws.
Lloyds Registers. http://library.mysticseaport.org/
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